Around the world and for hundreds of years, men and women have refused to be drafted into bearing arms for their nations' wars. These conscientious objectors to the draft are the subject of Peter Brock's latest collection, Against the Draft. Brock, the world's leading historian on pacifism, has assembled twenty-five of his essays on conscientious objection to the draft from the beginning of the Radical Reformation in 1525 to the end of the Second World War.Included in the ...

Berlin 1922: Auf der Oberbaumbrücke wird die Leiche eines jungen Chinesen gefunden, der brutal zu Tode geprügelt wurde. Der anfangs nur wenig beachtete Fall gewinnt an Brisanz, als kurze Zeit später drei weitere Morde an Chinesen verübt werden, die in der Bevölkerung für Aufregung und Entrüstung sorgen. Kommissar Hermann Kappe begibt sich auf Spurensuche und wagt sich dabei in die exotische Welt der Berliner Chinesen vor, an deren Lebensart und Kultur er zunehmend Gefallen findet. Besonder...

Here are the documented contradictions, the profession-wide errors, admissions, confessions and suppression by the reporters and correspondents who were co-participants in the deliberate dismantling of a sovereign nation, inflaming governments and the United Nations, politicians and manipulating public opinion. This is the book that was feared by the mainstream American and European press since 1993 when "Dateline Yugoslavia: The Partisan Press" was published by this author in Foreign Poli...

The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak nationalism.The Slovak National Awakening describes the three major stages in the devel...

Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprising of 1830. In exile they came into contact with the ideas of French ‘Utopian’ socialists such as Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Cabet, and they attempted to adapt these ideas to the very different conditions prevailing in their east European homeland. Thus this version of populism preceded i...

Ich bin die Nele Nele - so heißt auch die Freundin von Till Eulenspiegel, wie Lehrer Würdiger gleich erklärt, als sich Nele Sonntag in der neuen Schule vorstellt. Manche Leute glauben, dass Nele spinnt, denn sie erzählt mit überschäumender Phantasie. Und einen Vogel hat sie auch, den Wellensittich Paul. Allein mit dem Vater in der neuen Umgebung packt Nele beherzt alle Probleme an: Sie will eine gute Hausfrau sein, dem Vater eine neue Frau finden und die müde Klasse ein bißchen auf Trab br...

When it comes to Australian sporting icons, Peter Brock sits at the top. After winning Bathurst by an unbelievable six laps in 1979, the 'King of the Mountain' made his way into our households and our hearts. Brock's colourful private life has triggered plenty of rumours but the truth has remained obscure. Here, one of his closest friends, and a co-driver, tells the real story of Peter Brock.With more than 200 photographs and a revealing tribute from his daughter, Peter...

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Zum 25. Jubiläum der Reinickendorfer Kriminacht gibt es endlich „Neues vom Tatort Tegel“: Nach zehn Jahren bringt Krimi-Urgestein Horst Bosetzky in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bezirksamt Reinickendorf zum zweiten Mal eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten aus der Feder von deutschsprachigen Kriminacht-Stars heraus. Mit dabei sind: Friedrich Ani, Nina George, Felix Huby, Volker Kutscher, Ingrid Noll, Matthias Wittekindt und Sybil Volks. Auch der 2016 mit dem „Krimifuchs“, dem regelmäßig auf der Krimi...

A new 20-year memorial edition of Peter Brock’s illustrated autobiography, honouring the life of this Holden icon, Bathurst champion and legendary Australian racing driverCelebrating the life of Peter Brock through his family and friends, personal collections of photos, memorabilia and personalised letters. This book provides unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter Brock, on and off the road. It features personal photographs, memorabilia and reflec...

Von der Lackchemie über verfahrenstechnische Kenntnisse bis hin zu Kompetenzen in Qualitätsprüfung, Umweltschutz- und Sicherheitsregularien: Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt - nun bereits in der fünften Auflage - das gesamte Wissensspektrum, das heute in der Lackindustrie erforderlich ist. Die neue, vollständig überarbeitete Auflage enthält u.a. eine aktualisierte Übersicht relevanter Normen und bietet so eine umfassende Wissens-Basis für Nachwuchskräfte sowie ein effizientes Nachschlagewerk für...

The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland. In Nation and History, editors Peter Brock, John Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel have brought together twenty-four essays on Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, an era of unparalleled changes in every aspect of Polish life.From the late eighteenth century until 1918, the Polish state was partitioned between its three neighbours: Russia, Prussia (Germa...