Emperor Maximilian I is the last knight. With his death the Middle Ages end and modern times begin. Martin Luther publishes his famous theses and the Reformation changes the Christian world. The emergence of two denominations eventually leads to the cruelest war that Germany has experienced until then. It is the Thirty Years' War that devastates entire tracts of land, in which settlements disappear from the map and the population is suffering from terror and hunger. With the end of the horror war Germany is a different country, a country of many independent small states. Thus also the Netherlands and Switzerland separate from Germany and become independent. Austria and Prussia are benefiting from small-scale state-building and are expanding. Prussia becomes next to Austria a German great power. Germany is repeatedly threatened by the Turks. In the year 1683 Germany should finally fall and become a Turkish Muslim country. The Turks are beaten before Vienna. Thereafter, the reconquest of the Balkans by Austrian troops begins. Austria becomes superpower. During this time, there are also domestic and military conflicts between Prussia and Austria. In these conflicts, Prussia finally comes out victorious. Poland is divided beween Russia, Prussia and Austria and disappears entirely from the map. French revolutionary troops are threatening Germany, occupy large areas and devastate the country. This book also covers the Renaissance, the Baroque period, the Rococo style and the Enlightenment, as well as Classicism and Mercantilism. You can also read something about famous personalities of that time, such as Goethe, Schiller and Mozart.
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For sale is an old Austria Stamp collection. It is mint & used. I believe it is an old Minkus album, but there is no cover page, so I'm not certain. The album begins in 1918 and continues until about 1962.
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George Ward Price rose to prominence as the leading journalist in the 1930s, thanks to a string of world exclusives on Nazi Germany. He spent an hour alone with Hitler and Göring after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland, stood next to Hitler as he addressed a crowd on the night of the invasion of Austria, and joined him for afternoon tea at the Eagle's Nest following his historic first meeting with Neville Chamberlain. These stories made Ward Price world famous, but he often seemed uncomfortable in the glare of the spotlight, hiding his true self behind a carefully cultivated veneer of suave and easy-going charm. It meant that he left unanswered questions: what drove his all-consuming ambition? Was his success down to journalist brilliance, or was there something more sinister that lay behind it? And were there any lengths to which he would not go to make sure that, as one of his colleagues put it, he 'always got his story'? Interviewing Hitler is the first book to explore the real Ward Price and the truth behind his reporting on the Nazis. It is a journey that takes us through a series of century-shaping events and deep into the dark heart of British journalism. As well as being one of the most controversial figures in newspaper history, Ward Price's career serves as a warning for today's world of disinformation and fake news.
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The struggle between Germany and the Allies along the Western Front is for many the most familiar element of World War I. However, many less well-known theatres of conflict, key to the overall progress and conduct of the war, hold as much relevance to both the traveller and the armchair enthusiast. In this work, the author sheds light on the fighting methods of the protagonists in less familiar settings, whether in the Italian Alps or in the cloying heat of the Greek coast. In the first weeks of fighting, stubborn Belgian resistance resulted in a desperate battle to stabilise the front and compelled the German advance to be diverted against the British at Ypres. French determination to win back Alsace-Lorraine plunged the Vosges region into fluid conflict for over a year from August 1914 before both sides realised the impossibility of a decisive success in this area. The three-year struggle between Italy and Austria across the alpine passes was to draw German, British and French forces into the region. Anglo-French assistance to the Serbs through Salonika produced a standoff between the Allies and the Central Powers which was only to be resolved in the last months of the war.
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Longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Shortlisted for the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors. Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. Winner of the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection A Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Power's Shrines of Upper Austria gathers numerous stories and perspectives, such as the fragmented narrative of an Austrian woman who married a British soldier after the Second World War, and the voices of schoolchildren and immigrants. Strange discoveries are made: a grave for two dead goats; a lantern procession on the night of Epiphany; a baby abandoned by a river; a homemade frog-puppet. The poems are a collage of stories and histories, set in a variety of forms and registers. They are attentive to local detail, rich in the names of people and places - Marija, Omegepta, Eck 4 and the Loser Mountain. Mixing poetry and prose, image and narrative, German and English, Power's poems are a celebration of creativity in unlikely places. Against a disquieting backdrop of mild winters and memories of snow, they invite us to question what it means to feel at once a stranger and at home.
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AUSTRIA - 1992. we will respond as soon as possible.
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Vom Wert der Freundschaft für unser Leben Altbundespräsident Heinz Fischer erinnert sich an die gemeinsame Volkschulzeit im Nachkriegs-Wien mit seinem Freund John Sailer. Hans Krankl und Herbert Prohaska erklären, wie sie trotz der Gegnerschaft zwischen Rapid und Austria ein Leben lang befreundet blieben. Die Ö3-Stars Gabi Hiller und Philip Hansa philosophieren über platonische Freundschaften zwischen Mann und Frau. Im Gespräch mit bekannten Persönlichkeiten und ihren Freund:innen geht Birgit Fenderl der Freundschaft auf die Spur. Was macht Freundschaft eigentlich aus? Welche Funktionen übernehmen Freund:innen in unserem Leben, warum ist es gar nicht so einfach, lebenslange Freundschaften aufrecht zu erhalten und wie haben Lockdown und Co unsere Freundschaften durcheinandergebracht? Mit einem Beitrag von Lisz Hirn über Freundschaft. Folgende Freundespaare sind im Buch - mit Fotos: Erika Pluhar – Anna Dangel Heinz Fischer – John Sailer Haya Molcho – Ellen Lewis Hans Krankl – Herbert Prohaska Anneliese Rohrer – Susan Buckland Birgit Braunrath – Guido Tartarotti Philipp Hansa – Gabi Hiller Birgit Denk – Alexandra Barcelli Paul Sevelda – Uschi Denison Hannah Lessing – Michaela Ernst Markus Freistätter – Susanne Auzinger Alain Weissgerber – Michael Lentsch Arman T. Riahi – Arash T. Riahi und Azadeh T. Riahi
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Tierras solares es un raro texto perteneciente al género de literatura de viajes, en el que se relatan dos viajes realizados por Rubén Darío por Europa entre 1903 y 1904. En él, el poeta recoge sus impresiones sobre Barcelona, Andalucía, Gibraltar y Tánger, para después continuar por Bélgica, Alemania, Austria-Hungría e Italia.
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<p><strong>Wojna i pokój, rewolucja i kontrrewolucja. Stary porządek i narodziny nowego świata.</strong></p> <p><strong>Druga odsłona serii młodzieńczych powieści i opowiadań Szczepana Twardocha!</strong></p> <p></p> <p>Wiedeń, koniec XVIII wieku. Rewolucja czyha tuż za rogiem. Do walki z nieokiełznanym tłumem ramię w ramię stają dwaj arystokraci z rodu Sternbergów, bracia Carl i Alexander. I choć odnoszą triumf, zwycięstwo łączy się dla nich z gorzkim smakiem porażki. Cesarz zostaje obalony, arystokracja wymordowana, Polacy nieustępliwie się buntują, a Austria pogrąża się w zaciętych walkach z Rosjanami…</p> <p><em>Sternberg </em>to nie tylko odważna i ambitna powieść, ale przede wszystkim kolaż wszystkich europejskich rewolucji. Po wspólnej walce rozchodzą się drogi braci Sternbergów. Carl zaczyna obracać się w politycznych sferach, podczas gdy Alexander zostaje partyzantem. W tle epokowych wydarzeń rozgrywają się ludzkie dramaty, będące małymi opowieściami w Wielkiej Historii. Ze starego porządku rodzi się nowy świat.</p> <p>„<em>Sternberg </em>to debiutancka powieść Szczepana Twardocha. Dopatrzyć się w niej można zapowiedzi dbałości Autora o tzw. research, choćby w opisach broni. Czy jednak znajdzie się tu frazę pisarza, który już za parę lat stworzy swe najgłośniejsze powieści? Zdania są podzielone — ja skłaniam się ku opinii Łukasza Orbitowskiego, który właśnie o <em>Sternbergu </em>napisał, że widać w nim, iż «Twardoch organicznie czuje historię. Nikt tak jak on nie potrafi rozpisać jej na nowo, a jego fraza przypomina różdżkę czarodzieja, dającą życie postaciom i wydarzeniom»”.</p> <p>Krzysztof Łęcki (fragment posłowia)</p>
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Al igual que hizo Michael Haneke muchos años después en La cinta blanca, Ödön von Horváth narra en esta prodigiosa novela los orígenes del nacionalsocialismo y cómo la semilla del mal ya estaba presente en los jóvenes y en su educación.El narrador de Juventud sin Dios es un joven profesor a quien el director del colegio le pide que no corrija a un alumno que afirma que los negros son infrahumanos, y le recuerda, además, que su obligación es "educar para la guerra". Los valores patrióticos se inculcan en una especie de campamento paramilitar en el que se producirá un crimen misterioso. Horváth escribió esta obra en el verano de 1937, exiliado en Henndorf, en las proximidades de Salzburgo, y se publicó ese mismo año, alcanzando rápidamente una gran popularidad, incluso en el extranjero, siendo traducida a diez idiomas en los dos años siguientes. Las referencias a la realidad del nazismo son el elemento central en una obra en la que el autor describe una curiosa mezcla de la Alemania nazi con la Austria prefascista.
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