Sentraleuropa

A fascinating history of the great summer offensive launched by the Red Army in 1944 which turned the tide of the war.Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two …

Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2014Winner of the 2014 Wolfson History Prize, the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, the Society for Military History's 2015 …

Ikke langt unna den østprøyssiske byen Rastenburg, Ketrzyn i dagens Polen, lå Hitlers hovedkvarter: «Ulvehiet». Her tilbrakte Adolf Hitler mesteparten av sin tid etter angrepet på …

Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near …

She was the great-grandmother of Europe. Her descendants sit on thrones across the continent to this day. But Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was all but written out of …

Hvad vil det sige at være menneske? Svend Brinkmann giver svar på dette spørgsmål ved at fortælle historien om den unge, introverte Andreas, der tager på dannelsesrejse gennem …

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into …

This is his authoritative historical account of the years 1933-45, when the Nazis, under the rule of their despotic leader Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany. They commandeered the …

The moving and inspiring story of an Auschwitz survivor who shares what heâ??s learned about gratitude, tolerance and kindness.

A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history.