Am Anfang steht die Lösung des jahrtausendealten Rätsels 666, die Zahl des Tieres. Entgegen dem, was die Theologen vermuten, handelt es sich nicht um einen römischen Kaiser, weder Nero noch Domitian, sondern um Kleopatra. Dabei wäre es leicht gewesen, es zu erraten: Cherchez la femme!

Von dieser ersten gewonnenen Erkenntnis ausgehend, erzeigt sich die ganze Apokalypse als ein Palimpsest, eine verklärende Umschreibung der Taten Octavians, der auf seine Adoption als junger neuer Caesar poc...

With great flair and authority, the author describes Prussia's great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values on which it was built.

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. This title explains a compelling series of events.

In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital que...

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders

A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day

This retelling and explanation of over eighty myths is interspersed with bold and vibrant pictures, with the wide range of contributors offering a distinctly global range of expertise. Includes the stories of Pandora's Box, King Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.