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Ein Thriller der internationalen Diplomatie, der zwischen Februar 1932 und Oktober 1933 spielt - der Historiker Paul Jankowski erzählt die Geschichte vom Versagen der weltweiten Staatengemeinschaft, die Vorgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Welt lief aus dem Ruder im Winter 1932/33. In Deutschland ergriff Hitler die Macht, Mussolini schielte nach Afrika, Japan griff China an und verließ den Völkerbund. In Frankreich gab es drei Regierungs...

How ideas moved the world from post-war to pre-war once more.

Paul Jankowski offers a fresh look at Verdun, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, in a book that will surely become the standard work on the topic.

Expert....[Jankowski] shrewdly juxtaposes interminable peace and disarmament conferences and political events with the national mood in a dozen countries whose leaders revealed a distressing eagerness to discover the source of their misery in rival nations or undeserving minorities." — Kirkus ReviewsA narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded t...

The 1932 to 1933 winter saw Hitler come to power, Japan leave the league of nations, France change governments three times and other troubling events. Jankowski looks at this moment in time to consider how the world came to teeter again on the cusp of war.

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Combattuta fra il 21 febbraio e il dicembre 1916, quella di Verdun è "la" battaglia del fronte occidentale. In realtà non decise nulla, né da una parte né dall'altra. Resta un mistero perché i tedeschi abbiano deciso di sferrare l'attacco in quel punto di dubbia rilevanza strategica, e per quali logiche infernali tedeschi e francesi in dieci mesi vi abbiano immolato centinaia di migliaia di uomini. Eppure, con la sua immagine di battaglia più ...

+++ Verdun, die blutigste Schlacht des Ersten Weltkriegs, in einer fesselnden Geschichtserzählung dargestellt - von den Kämpfen selbst bis zur Erinnerungskultur in Frankreich und Deutschland +++ An einem kalten Februarmorgen 1916 eröffneten mehr als 1000 deutsche Geschütze das Feuer auf französische Stellungen rund um Verdun. Zehn Monate wurde erbittert gekämpft, 300 000 Soldaten fanden den Tod. Verdun gilt bis heute als Symbol für sinnloses ...

Paul Jankowski offers a fresh look at Verdun, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, in a book that will surely become the standard work on the topic.

Speak American Too: Your Guide to Building Powerful Brands in the New Heartland is the definitive field manual to marketing in the New Heartland, one of the nations largest and most powerful cultural segments representing nearly 60% of U.S. consumers.

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At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siècle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the Republic's servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcomed or resented. When taken together, surely les affaires now approximate in political significance (if not in noise or invective) those of the Dreyfus or...