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  • One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences

    Edited by Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass ... Read more

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    German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying

    by Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer ...
    On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and ... Read more

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  • Master Mind

    The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare

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  • Taste of War

    World War II and the Battle for Food

    by Lizzie Collingham ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2012Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self ... Read more

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  • Pandora’s Box

    A History of the First World War

    by Jörn Leonhard ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Read more

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  • Absolute Destruction

    Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

    by Isabel V. Hull ...
    In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures ... Read more

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  • Krupp

    A History of the Legendary German Firm

    by Harold James ...
    A history of the steel and arms maker that came to symbolize the best and worst of modern German historyThe history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present ... Read more

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  • Architects of Annihilation

    Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

    by Gotz Aly, Susanne Heim ...
    Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the demographers, economists, geographers and planners in the period between the disorderly excesses of the November 1938 pogrom and the fully-effective operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz in summer 1942. The authors, both journalists and historians, argue that this group of intellectuals, often combining academic, civil service and Party ... Read more

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  • Crimes and Mercies

    The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950

    by James Bacque ...
    More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II—one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Scientists

    Science, War, and the Devil's Pact

    by John Cornwell ...
    An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler’s regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the ReichA shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the ... Read more

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  • Red Army Faction, A Documentary History

    Volume 1: Projectiles for the People

    Edited by J. Smith, André Moncourt ...
    Series series Kerseplebedeb
    The long-awaited Volume 2 of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction—West Germany’s most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization’s near-total decimation in 1977. This work includes the details of the guerilla’s operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive.This was a period of regrouping and ... Read more

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  • An Improbable War?

    The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

    Edited by Holger Afflerbach, David Stevenson ...
    The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the ... Read more

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