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| Killing
Hitler |
| Roger
Moorhouse |
| Published
by : Bantam Books |
Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot -
the attempt to kill Hitler launched by the German Resistance Movement
on 20 July 1944. But it is not widely known that this was only one
of a long series of similar attacks. "Killing Hitler"
is an account of the surprisingly numerous attempts on the life
of Adolf Hitler. The Germans, Soviets, Poles and British all made
plans to kill the Fuhrer. Lone gunmen, disaffected German officers
and the Polish Underground, the Soviet NKVD and the British 'Special
Operations Executive' were all involved. Their methods varied from
bombing, poisoning or using a sniper, to infiltrating the SS, or
even sending Rudolf Hess back to Germany under hypnosis. Many of
the plans did not make it beyond the drawing board, some were carried
out. All of them failed. Alongside the dramatic and largely unknown
stories of Hitler's numerous assassins, this book presents a fascinating
investigation of a number of broader issues, such as the complex
motives of the German Resistance, the curious squeamishness of the
British, and the effectiveness of the Nazi security apparatus. Drawing
on memoirs and original archival sources in Poland, Germany, Russia
and Britain, "Killing Hitler" offers a unique perspective
on the history of the Third Reich. Hitler's would-be assassins ranged
from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical
to the ideologically obsessed, and from enemy agents to his closest
associates. Few of these men and women are known to history. This
is their story. It is the story of their plans, their motives and
their failures. But it is also an account of the remarkable survival
of a tyrant.
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| Microcosm
- Portrait of a Central European City |
| Norman
Davies & Roger Moorhouse |
| Published
by : Jonathan Cape, 2002 |
In order to present a portrait of Central Europe,
from AD 1000 to the present, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse study
the history of one of its main cities - Breslau. Breslau, the traditional
capital of Silesia, was one of the great commercial cities of medieval
Europe. It later became the second city of the kingdom of Bohemia,
a major city of the Habsburg lands, and a Residenzstadt of the kingdom
of Prussia. The third largest German city of the mid-nineteenth
century, Breslau's population reached one million in 1945. But in
May 1945 the city of Breslau was annihilated by the Soviet Red Army.
Much of it was destroyed, thousands of its inhabitants were killed.
Breslau surrendered four days after Berlin and was thus the last
Fortress of the Reich to fall, and, indeed, one of the very last
areas in Germany to surrender. Transferred to Poland after the war,
the city has risen from the ruins of the war and is once again a
thriving economic and cultural centre of the region. The history
of Silesia's main city embodies all the experiences which have made
Central Europe what it is - the rich mixture of nationalities and
cultures; the German settlement and the reflux of the Slavs; a Jewish
presence of exceptional distinction; a turbulent succession of Imperial
rulers; and the shattering exposure to both Nazis and Stalinists.
In short, it is a Central European microcosm.
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| Die
Blume Europas |
| Norman
Davies & Roger Moorhouse |
| Published
by : Droemer-Knaur, 2002 |
Die
Blume Europas ist das Porträt einer mitteleuropäischen
Stadt, die -- im Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Machtsphären
-- auf eine wechselvolle 1.000-jährige Geschichte zurückblickt.
Zu dieser Geschichte gehören der Glanz der Kultur- und Handelsmetropole
ebenso wie die mehrfache Zerstörung in Kriegen. So wechselhaft
wie die Geschichte der zeitweiligen Hansestadt sind auch die Namen,
unter denen die "Blume Europas" über die Jahrhunderte
firmierte -- Wrotizla, Wretslaw, Presslaw, Wroclaw, Vratislavia
und Breslau, um nur einige der insgesamt mehr als 50 Namen zu nennen.
Die Geschichte Breslaus freilich ist mehr als irgendeine Stadtgeschichte.
Hier nämlich bündeln sich "in verdichteter Form all
jene Erfahrungen, die so kennzeichnend für Mitteleuropa sind
-- das reiche Gemisch aus Nationalitäten und Kulturen, der
deutsche "Drang nach Osten" und die Rückkehr der
Slawen; die jüdische Präsenz von außerordentlichem
Rang; die turbulente Abfolge kaiserlicher Herrscher und in neuerer
Zeit die verheerende Herrschaft von Nationalsozialisten und Stalinisten.
Kurz, die Hauptstadt Schlesiens ist ein mitteleuropäischer
Mikrokosmos"
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| Mikrokosmos |
| Norman
Davies & Roger Moorhouse |
| Published
by : Znak,
2002 |
Historyczny
portret stolicy Slaska, miasta, które wielokrotnie zmienialo
swoje powiazania polityczne i kulturowe i które zawiera w
sobie esencje rozmaitych doswiadczen ksztaltujacych Europe Srodkowa:
bogata mieszanke narodowosci i kultur, niemiecki Drang nach Osten
i powrót Slowian, znaczaca role Zydów, burzliwe losy
wladców imperialnych, a wreszcie zlowieszcza obecnosc zarówno
hitlerowców, jak i stalinowców. Slowem, miasta - mikrokosmosu
Srodkowej Europy.
Ta ksiazka, która dotyczy w wiekszej mierze europejskiej
historii regionalnej niz polskich dziejów narodowych, stawia
sobie za cel przezwyciezenie historiograficznej rywalizacji, która
doprowadzila do powstania dwóch konkurencyjnych wizji: "niemieckiego
miasta Breslau" i "polskiego Wroclawia".
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