The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the History of Prussia [Audiobook] download free by James Charles Roy
- Listen audiobook: The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the History of Prussia
- Author: James Charles Roy
- Release date: 2000/9/22
- Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780813337937
- Rating: 7.12 of 10
- Votes: 166
- Review by: Shiloh Bethel
- Review rating: 8.74 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/3
- Duration: 5H7M25S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OPUS, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV (compression ZIP, TAR.XZ, TBZ, RAR, IMG)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 47 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M39S (9.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defence of the Prussian' realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what Prussia' means, either geographically or nationalistically, but neither would they deny the psychic resonance of the single word. To most, it means unbridled aggression, the image of the goose-stepping Junker .But what was once Prussia is now a significant portion of Eastern Europe, a contested homeland first won by Christian knights of the Teutonic Order. For centuries thereafter its terrain has been crisscrossed by war and partitioned by barbed wire. In its final catastrophe of 1945, nearly two million German refugees fled the region as Russian armies broke the eastern front, perhaps the greatest dislocation of a civilian population at any time during World War II. With the Berlin Wall now a memory and the Soviet Union in a state of collapse, this remains a geography in shambles. Modern travellers can now, for the first time in decades, see and ponder for themselves what Prussia really was and now is.James Charles Roy and Amos Elon, two writers noted for their inquisitive natures, have gone to search through the rubble themselves. They intermingle present-day observations with moving vignettes from the German and Prussian past, sketching a portrait of the Europe we know today. The story is spiced with interviews and reminiscences, unforgettable in their sadness, of people looking back at a life now gone, a life full of turmoil and heartache, memories both fond and tragic. The final result: a far deeper understanding of the tattered lands of today's Eastern Europe.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Historiography, Travel & Holiday Guides, Social & Cultural History, Guidebooks, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Comparative Politics, European History
- Download servers: Nubo, 4Shared, Your Bittorrent, FreakShare, MEGA, Mediafire. Compressed in ZIP, TAR.XZ, TBZ, RAR, IMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 43.48 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x22.35mm
- Weight: 535.24g
- Printed by: BASIC BOOKS
- Published in: New York, United States
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