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Verlorene Siege (English: Lost Victories; full title of English edition: Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General) is the personal narrative of Erich von Manstein, a German field marshal during World War II. The book was first published in West Germany in 1955, then in Spain in 1956.
The full title of the 1914 version was "The German White Book about the outbreak of the German-Russian-French war" and documents German claims on the causes of the war. [a] [1] An authorized English translation appeared in 1914. [2] The book contained extracts of diplomatic material intended to portray the war's cause as defensive on the part ...
Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
The book centers on Paul Bäumer, a German soldier on the Western Front during World War I. Before the war, Paul lived with his parents and sister in a charming German village. He attended school, where the patriotic speeches of his teacher Kantorek led the whole class to volunteer for the Imperial German Army shortly after the start of the ...
The Red Fighter Pilot (German: Der rote Kampfflieger) is a book written by Manfred von Richthofen, a famous German fighter pilot who is considered the top scoring ace of the First World War, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories. Richthofen's most common German nickname was "Der Rote Kampfflieger," which roughly translates to ...
The translation was made with a view to readability rather than in an effort to rigidly reproduce Hitler's sometimes idiosyncratic German form. [35] Significantly, the translation marked in the text areas that had been left out of the Dugdale abridgment. [36]
The German-language originals started in 1993 with books by Brigitte-Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer. She wrote 16 books for Kosmos. After her era ended, several other authors continued to write in the series at the rate of six books per year (in contrast to the U.S. series, which published one new story every year or so after Robert Arthur's death).
Online version of Vom Kriege - the 1832 German original; Online version of On War - the 1873 English translation "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz. Project Gutenberg E-book. (2006, 2019). English translation of 1874 by Colonel J.J. Graham. Originally published in 1874 and 1909. On War public domain audiobook at LibriVox