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“david clay large”

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  • Berlin

    by David Clay Large ...
    In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the signature city for the next hundred years. Once a symbol of modernity, in the Thirties it became ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Nazi Games

    by David Clay Large ...
    Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world.The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Munich 1972

    Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games

    by David Clay Large ...
    Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages’ tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Grand Spas of Central Europe

    A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing

    by David Clay Large ...
    The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present, focusing especially on the years between the French Revolution and World War II, a period in which ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • And The World Closed Its Doors

    The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The Holocaust

    by David Clay Large ...
    In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would allow his family to immigrate, despite wealth, education, and business and family connections. After repeated but fruitless efforts to gain entry first to the United States and then to Britain, Chile, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Germans to the Front

    West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era

    by David Clay Large ...
    In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany’s total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. The book is the first comprehensive study in English of West German rearmament during this critical period. Large’s analysis of the complex interplay between the diplomatic and domestic facets of the rearmament ... Read more

    $28.99 USD