A celebrated historian explores the Spanish Civil War and the world it made. He looks through the stories of the reporters, writers and artists who witnessed the conflict that engaged a number of exceptional artists and writers such as...

Born in Berlin in 1909, Karl Ulrich Schnabel¿son of the pianist Artur Schnabel and the singer Therese Behr¿studied with his father as well as with Leonid Kreutzer at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. He gave his debut in 1926. Apart from...

Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes charts the history of energy transitions over time, from wood to coal to electricity and beyond, highlighting the successes and failures behind each breakthrough and considering the handover from...

The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the H-Bomb and the birth of the Cold War, based on secret files...

In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust. These "special task forces," organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it...

"The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians" von Richard Rhodes ist eine umfassende Darstellung des Manhattan-Projekts, dem geheimen Forschungsprojekt während des...

"Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race" von Richard Rhodes bietet eine detaillierte Untersuchung der nuklearen Aufrüstung während des Kalten Krieges. Das Buch beleuchtet die politischen, militärischen und technischen...

With a new introduction from the author, this is the 25th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer prize-winning story of how the atomic bomb came to be. von Rhodes, Richard