LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steven lehrer

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steven lehrer

  • The Reich Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker Complex
    Steven Lehrer
    Germany’s Nazi government initially made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin’s oldest buildings, the Old Reich Chancellery. Unsatisfied with the building, Adolf Hitler commissioned Albert Speer to design and build a newer, grander structure, and his New Reich Chancellery was completed in early 1939. Hitler described his New Reich Chancellery and other Nazi buildings as...
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    43,91 €

  • Wannsee House and the Holocaust
    Steven Lehrer
    Although Hitler’s extermination of the Jews was well underway by the end of 1941, it was at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942 that Reinhard Heydrich officially announced the Nazi’s infamous 'final solution.' This conference was held at a luxurious villa, and both house and conference have a fascinating history. This book traces that history from 1914--the year that sa...
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    42,93 €

  • Explorers of the Body
    Steven Lehrer
    How does the body work? This question has intrigued and occupied mankind since soothsayers first peered into animal entrails. From the primitive medicine of ancient Egypt to the mind-boggling achievements of modern laboratories, the healing craft has been a fascinating part of man’s progress. Explorers of the Body is a history of medicine told through lively stories of the men ...
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    23,34 €

  • Twelve Wounds
    Steven Lehrer
    A put-upon prosecutor investigates a racially charged murder in this spicy legal drama. It seems like an open-and-shut case when a Hasidic Jewish man is stabbed to death on a Brooklyn street, and his alleged assailant, identified by three witnesses, is caught minutes later by the Hasidic Shomrim foot patrol. It’s 1991, the Crown Heights crime scene is a powder keg of ethnic te...
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    11,87 €

  • Hitler Sites
    Steven Lehrer
    This work provides a unique service to historians by identifying over 150 places in Austria, Germany, France and the United States that are in some way associated with Adolf Hitler. The entry on Braunau am Inn (upper Austria) gives information on Hitler’s birthplace, which is now a school for handicapped children. The entry for Klesheim Palace, built in 1700-1709 and renovat...
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    58,54 €