Paras Versus the Reich: Canada"s Paratroopers at War, 1942-1945 (Repost)

Colonel Bernd Horn, Michel Wyczynski – Paras Versus the Reich: Canada’s Paratroopers at War, 1942-1945
Dundurn | 2003 | ISBN: 1550024701 | English | 376 pages | PDF | 22.21 MB

This meticulously researched book traces the development of airborne forces from their earliest mythology to their earth-shattering debut in the Second World War. More importantly, it reveals in exacting detail the story of Canada’s paratroopers – from the early resistance to their establishment, the rigorous selection process and gruelling training, to their unrivalled combat record. It tells the story of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, which never failed to achieve its assigned missions, nor did it ever lose an objective once captured. Through the pages of this book the reader will experience the exceptional courage, endurance, fighting skills, and tenacity of Canada’s paratroopers in the Second World War.

Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation (Repost)

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, “Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation”
German | 2009 | ISBN: 3406535992 | PDF | pages: 136 | 2,2 mb

Als Franz II. am 6. August 1806 die Kaiserkrone niederlegte, hörte das Alte Reich auf zu existieren. Dieses Buch bietet eine fundierte Darstellung des Alten Reiches vom Ende des Mittelalters bis 1806. Erläutert werden Institutionen und Strukturen jenes Staates, der so gar nicht den Vorstellungen moderner Staatlichkeit entspricht, der aber Deutschland auch über dieses Datum hinaus prägte.

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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus"s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0393062651, 0393342921 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2,5 MB

The New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.

Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year.

Choice Outstanding title.

Winner of Phi Beta Kappa’s 2012 Christian Gauss Book Award.

“A model of popular intellectual history. . . . In every way, 
A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement.”–Washington Post

The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.

The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble’s villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as “a bible,” nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired–and polarized–readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. 14 black-and-white illustrations