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Jungvolk

The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Third Reich

By: Wilhelm Gehlen,Don Gregory

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Jungvolk

The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Third Reich

By: Wilhelm Gehlen,Don Gregory

“An extraordinary account of a young boy caught up in the middle of a war . . . frank and even funny at times . . . utterly absorbing” (Books Monthly). This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany’s intelligence agency. The author, only ten years old when the war began, became a helper at the local Luftwaffe flak battery, fetching ammunition. It was exciting work for Will, a member of the “Jungvolk,” and by the end of the war, he had become expert at judging attacks. As fighter raids increased in frequency, he noted that the pilots became less skilled. Gehlen’s town was repeatedly bombed, and he often had to help with the wreckage or to pull survivors from basements. He witnessed more death than a child ever should; nevertheless, his flak battery continued firing until US tanks were almost on top of the position. In this book, Gehlen provides an intimate glimpse of the chaos, horror, and black humor of life just behind the front lines. As seen through the eyes of a child who was expert in aircraft identification and bomb weights, food-rationing and tank types, one encounters a view of life inside Hitler’s wartime Reich that is both fascinating and rare. “Although the memories Gehlen shares are narrow, and offer little insight into the Reich itself, they’re remarkable for the child’s perspective they bring to bear on a warring country’s ferocious struggle.” —Publishers Weekly “A real gem, a quiet tour de force . . . Despite its serious subject matter the book reads as an adventure story from start to finish.” —Military Modelling

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1935149644

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Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns

By: Don A Gregory,Wilhelm R Gehlen

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Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns

By: Don A Gregory,Wilhelm R Gehlen

Two war diaries that reveal “just what it was like, day by day, living in a Wehrmacht unit” (Internet Modeler). This book is built around two recently discovered war diaries—one by a member of the 23rd Panzer Division, which served under Manstein in Russia, and the other by a member of Rommel’s Afrika Korps. Together, along with detailed timelines and brief overviews, they comprise a fascinating up-close look at the German side of World War II. The stories are told primarily in the first person present tense, as events occurred, and without the benefit—or liability—of postwar reflection. The first diary, author unknown, covers April 1942 to March 1943, the momentous year when the tide of battle turned in the East. It first details the unit’s combat in the great German victory at Kharkov, then the advance to the Caucasus, and finally the lethal winter of 1942–43. The second diary’s author was a soldier named Rolf Krengel, and the diary was the original, handwritten copy. It starts with the beginning of the war and ends shortly after the occupation. Serving primarily in North Africa, Krengel recounts with keen insight and flashes of humor the day-to-day challenges of the Afrika Korps. During one of the swirling battles in the desert, Krengel found himself sharing a tent with Rommel at a forward outpost. Neither of the diarists was famous, nor of especially high rank. These are simply the brutally honest accounts written at the time by men of the Wehrmacht who participated in two of history’s most crucial campaigns.

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1935149741

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Hitler's Home Front

Memoirs of a Hitler Youth

By: Don A Gregory,Wilhelm R Gehlen

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Hitler's Home Front

Memoirs of a Hitler Youth

By: Don A Gregory,Wilhelm R Gehlen

A “candid and revealing memoir shows a normal boy and a family at war and in its aftermath, determined to do what it took to survive . . . fascinating” (The Great War). When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came into power in 1933, he promised the downtrodden, demoralized, and economically broken people of Germany a new beginning and a strong future. Millions flocked to his message, including a corps of young people called the Hitlerjugend—the Hitler Youth. By 1942 Hitler had transformed Germany into a juggernaut of war that swept over Europe and threatened to conquer the world. It was in that year that a nine-year-old Wilhelm Reinhard Gehlen, took the ‘Jungvolk’ oath, vowing to give his life for Hitler. This is the story of Wilhelm Gehlen’s childhood in Nazi Germany during World War II and the awful circumstances which he and his friends and family had to endure during and following the war. Including a handful of recipes and descriptions of the strange and sometimes disgusting food that nevertheless kept people alive, this book sheds light on the truly awful conditions and the twisted, mistaken devotion held by members of the Hitler Youth—that it was their duty to do everything possible to save the Thousand Year Reich.

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Pen and Sword

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1473858224

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9781473858220

Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the Science and Art of Nature

By: Johann Wilhelm Ritter

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Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the Science and Art of Nature

By: Johann Wilhelm Ritter

This bilingual edition offers the first English translations of three texts by the Romantic-era scientist, Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810). Explanatory essays accompanying each translation focus on the confluence of scientific and aesthetic inquiry in the work of this seminal thinker.

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BRILL

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9004183671

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9789004183674

National Intelligence and Science

Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy

By: Wilhelm Agrell,Gregory F. Treverton

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National Intelligence and Science

Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy

By: Wilhelm Agrell,Gregory F. Treverton

Intelligence is currently facing increasingly challenging cross-pressures from both a need for accurate and timely assessments of potential or imminent security threats and the unpredictability of many of these emerging threats. The essence of intelligence is no longer the collection, analysis, and dissemination of secret information, but has become instead the management of uncertainty in areas critical for overriding security goals.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199360863

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9780199360864

Philosophia perennis

Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought

By: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

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Philosophia perennis

Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought

By: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402030673

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9781402030673

The Postmodern Bible

By: George Aichele,Fred W. Burnett,Robert M. Fowler,David Job ling,Tina Pippin,Wilhelm Wuellner,Bible and Culture Collective

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The Postmodern Bible

By: George Aichele,Fred W. Burnett,Robert M. Fowler,David Job ling,Tina Pippin,Wilhelm Wuellner,Bible and Culture Collective

The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating--but often bewildering--new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars--with each page the work of multiple hands--The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in the humanities and is itself an illustration of the postmodern transformation of biblical studies for which it argues. The book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading. Several of these interpretive strategies--rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narratology, reader-response criticism, and feminist criticism--have been instrumental in the transformation of biblical studies up to now. Many--feminist and womanist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism--hold promise for the continued transformation of these studies in the future. Focusing on readings from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, this volume illuminates the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethical positions in the field of biblical studies.

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418

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Yale University Press

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0300068182

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9780300068184

Axel Honneth

Reconceiving Social Philosophy

By: Dagmar Wilhelm

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Axel Honneth

Reconceiving Social Philosophy

By: Dagmar Wilhelm

Axel Honneth is one of the most influential social and political philosophers in contemporary German political thought and one of the central figures of the third generation of the Frankfurt School. Honneth’s philosophical project presents at once a solution to a problem that has beset Frankfurt School Critical Theory from the first generation onwards, and offers a re-conceptualisation of social philosophy and its methodology in general. Honneth’s work presents a viable alternative to mainstream (especially Rawlsian) political philosophy by taking on challenges mainstream theories tend to avoid. This book provides one of the first substantial critical assessments of Honneth’s achievements so far. Dagmar Wilhelm locates Honneth in critical theory and mainstream political theory debates and offers a detailed exploration of his account of social philosophy, methodology, social pathology, recognition, and humiliation. The book also includes an in-depth discussion of Honneth’s critique of capitalism and programme for the new left and an assessment of the future of the project of the Frankfurt School in light of Honneth’s approach.

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247

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783486414

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9781783486410

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

Volume I Edited by M J Petry

By: Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

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Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

Volume I Edited by M J Petry

By: Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

The second part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in outline. Translated, and with an introduction by, MJ Petry. This edition first published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1317852524

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Bibliographia Aethiopica II

The Horn of Africa in English Literature

By: Hans Wilhelm Lockot

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Bibliographia Aethiopica II

The Horn of Africa in English Literature

By: Hans Wilhelm Lockot

Erstmals wird hier die Fulle der englischsprachigen Athiopienliteratur geordnet dargeboten. In 100 Sections fuhrt der Autor alle fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit Athiopien wichtigen Buch- und Zeitschriftenbeitrage zum Beispiel zur "Historyof Research", "Archaeology", "Religion", aber auch Fragen der "Sociology", "Agriculture", "Zoology" und "Medical Sciences" auf. Wie im Falle der deutschsprachigen Literatur ("Bibliographia Aethiopica: Die athiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigenRaumes" = Aethiopistische Forschungen 9 [1982]) berucksichtigt der Autor auch alle ihm zuganglichen Besprechungen, womit bei einer Aufnahme von mehr als 24.000 Titeln eine Art "Bibliographic Enzyclopedia" entstanden ist.

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Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

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3447036117

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9783447036115

Jungvolk

The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Third Reich

By: Wilhelm Gehlen,Don Gregory

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The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Third Reich

By: Wilhelm Gehlen,Don Gregory

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International Handbook of Violence Research

By: Wilhelm Heitmeyer,John Hagan

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International Handbook of Violence Research

By: Wilhelm Heitmeyer,John Hagan

An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an earlier review-or even several competing surveys. On the other hand, more thorough study is necessary if the intensity and scope of research are increasing without comprehensive assessments. That was the situation in Western societies when work began on this project in the summer of 1998. It was then, too, that the challenges emerged: any manual, espe cially an international one, is a very special type of text, which is anything but routine. It calls for a special effort: the "state of the art" has to be documented for selected subject areas, and its presentation made as compelling as possible. The editors were delighted, therefore, by the cooperation and commitment shown by the eighty-one contributors from ten countries who were recruited to write on the sixty-two different topics, by the con structive way in which any requests for changes were dealt with, and by the patient re sponse to our many queries. This volume is the result of a long process. It began with the first drafts outlining the structure of the work, which were submitted to various distinguished colleagues. Friedheim Neidhardt of Berlin, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler of Munich, and Roland Eckert of Trier, to name only a few, supplied valuable comments at this stage.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306480395

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9780306480393

Hitler's Home Front

Memoirs of a Hitler Youth

By: Don A Gregory,Wilhelm R Gehlen

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Memoirs of a Hitler Youth

By: Don A Gregory,Wilhelm R Gehlen

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Pen and Sword

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Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns

By: Don A. Gregory,William R. Gehlen

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German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns

By: Don A. Gregory,William R. Gehlen

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1935149059

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Jungvolk

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Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

Hitler's Home Front

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Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the Science and Art of Nature

Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the Science and Art of Nature

National Intelligence and Science

National Intelligence and Science

Philosophia perennis

Philosophia perennis

The Postmodern Bible

The Postmodern Bible

Axel Honneth

Axel Honneth

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

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Bibliographia Aethiopica II

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Jungvolk

Jungvolk

International Handbook of Violence Research

International Handbook of Violence Research

Hitler's Home Front

Hitler's Home Front

Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts

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