Cet auteur se concentre sur les événements historiques et leur impact. Son œuvre se caractérise par une analyse approfondie et le désir de comprendre des processus sociaux et politiques complexes. À travers son écriture, il découvre des liens cachés et offre aux lecteurs une nouvelle perspective sur le passé. Son expertise en histoire est évidente dans ses recherches méticuleuses et son récit captivant.
The capital of the Nazi movement was not Berlin but Munich, according to Hitler himself. In examining why, historian David Clay Large begins in Munich four decades before World War I and finds a proto-fascist cultural heritage that proved fertile soil later for Hitler's movement. An engrossing account of the time and place that launched Hitler on the road to power. Photos.
"Berlin" offers a captivating narrative of the city's tumultuous history, highlighting its role as a center of innovation and a symbol of modernity, injustice, and the Cold War. David Clay Large explores themes of inferiority, distrust, and the city's vibrant yet complex identity, framed by the unifications of 1871 and 1990.
A distillation of recent scholarship on Germany's domestic resistance to the Nazi dictatorship.
"Nazi Games" recounts how the Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. The narrative also includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, which was ultimately derailed by the American Olympic Committee.
This compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages' tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission. Eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications, interweaving the political drama surrounding the Games with the athletic spectacle, itself hardly free of controversy. Writing with flair and an eye for telling detail, Large brings to life the stories of the indelible characters who epitomized the Games. With the Olympic movement in constant danger of terrorist disruption, and with the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the Munich story is more timely than ever.
Ve svém proslulém historickém díle, které se dočkalo mnoha vydání a překladů do řady jazyků, sledují autoři postupné oslabování mezinárodní pozice Evropy jako mocenského a kulturního centra světa, které kdysi, plné moci a síly, určovalo osudy větší částí planety. Autorům jde především o vyzvednutí těch historických trendů, které proměňovaly jednotlivé části Evropy a tím i celý kontinent. Práce se přitom neomezuje jen na politickou, ekonomickou či technologickou dimenzi, ale zahrnuje i pohledy na ideové, duchovní klima doby a na osobnosti, které tak či onak ovlivnily světové dějiny.
