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Want to get a taste of the entirety of human history in a single book? With World History for Dummies, you'll get an overview of the history of, well, everything, from the Neanderthal experience to the latest historical developments of the twenty-first century. Re-live history from your armchair as you ride into battle alongside Roman generals, prepare Egyptian pharaohs for the afterlife, and learn from the great Greek poets and philosophers. It's the perfect gift for the lifelong learner who wants to brush up on their world history knowledge.

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time.

The real history, not the telethon. A thousand years of literature, heroes and villains, empires that rise and fall, riches, defeats, and the missing link in understanding the world today.

Liberatory Leadership is a call for transformation. It's an opportunity for us to deepen the liminal space between who we are in today's world and who we want to be in the world we are creating tomorrow. This podcast is filled with conversations, tools, and information from leaders across the field, centering wholeness, love, interdependence, values, community, justice, movement building, and many other topics connected to Liberatory Leadership.

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the third edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance on the part of Britain and France to confront Germany? Why had Germany been permitted to rearm and to occupy independent nations without a struggle? What was the policy of appeasement?

Whether you're looking for a way to enhance your appreciation of the events that took place or just want to refresh your memory without digging through countless volumes of World War II history, this book is right for you. Accurate and accessible, World War II for Dummies will help you explore a war that defined and shaped the world we live in today. You'll discover all the players who participated in the war and the politics that drove them. Battle by battle, you'll find out how the Axis powers initially took control of the war and how the Allies fought back to win the day.

Nach Quellen und aus eigenen Erinnerungen schildert Golo Mann die zwölf Jahre der Nazi-Herrschaft, von Hitlers Machtergreifung bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Klar und engagiert legt er die politischen Entwicklungen dar, die den Zweiten Weltkrieg entfesselten, und analysiert die Ideologie, die zum Holocaust führte...

Am 1. Oktober 2006 jähren sich zum 60. Mal die ersten Urteilsverkündungen bei den Nürnberger Prozessen, mit denen das Internationale Militärtribunal gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher endete. Die Produktion von Ulrich Lampen macht es erstmals möglich, die öffentliche Konfrontation der NS-Führung mit ihren Taten in historischer Echtzeit zu erleben. Ein Zeugnis von beklemmender Intensität.

The history of the Third Reich - the most terrible chapter in the history of mankind. This empire of terror and violence lasted only 12 years but left behind millions of crippled destinies. UFOs, the Holy Grail, the Spear of Destiny, and secret spells are associated with something mythological, fabulous. But according to ancient tradition, they will give their power to the owner and make him ruler of the world. To find out whether the Third Reich obtained these relics, listen to the book Secrets of the Third Reich.