Dresden

Download or read book Grave Peril written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Chicago's ghost population starts going seriously postal, resident wizard Harry Dresden much figure out who is stirring them up and why they all seem to be somehow connected to him.

Download or read book Dresden written by Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic, political and social turmoil that characterized the immediate post-socialist period. By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and "ethnographic excursions" or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past. Moving beyond paradigms presently shaping the study of memory, it details the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in remembering, making manifest the link between such contradictions and larger symbolic and political-economic contexts. In this way, the author situates the study of memory in history and shows that it is the mutability of memory, in conjuction with the uncertainty of history, that render the past a dynamic and powerful force in human society.

Download or read book Bradt City Guide Dresden written by Tim Burford and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact guide to help travelers discover an alternative and attractive European city, home of fabulous architecture and wonderful art treasures.

Download or read book Dresden written by Alan Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 13 February 1945 Dresden, one of the most beautiful and historic cities of Europe, was destroyed by British and American air raids. This book is the first comprehensive history in the English language of this important cultural and historical centre. The book traces the city's evolution from 1206 to its great baroque period under Augustus the Strong, and from the bombing to the present day. The story of Dresden supplies the reader with unique insights into the collapse of the old monarchic order, the resistance of citizens to the Nazi regime, as well as the reaction of the Church and the rise and fall of the GDR. It describes the post-war replanning of the city, from its ideological reshaping under Communism to the liberation of ideas and energies after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Experts in their fields tell the story of Dresden's great musical, artistic, architectural, literary and theatrical traditions, which are further illuminated by a series of personal memoirs from eye-witness accounts in 1945 to contemporary reflections by Lord Menuhin and others. Heavily illustrated and complete with a foreword from the Duke of Kent, Dresden: A City Reborn is an important text for all students of German history and art history.

Download or read book After the Dresden Bombing written by A. Fuchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architecture, literature and film in dialogue with the changing German socio-political landscape.

Download or read book The Dresden Firebombing written by Tony Joel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre.Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and the motivation for the attack have become fierce historical battlegrounds, as German feelings of victimhood complete with those of guilt and loss. The Dresden bombing was used by East Germany as a propaganda tool, and has been re-appropriated by the neo-Nazi far right. Meanwhile the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche- the city's sumptuous eighteenth-century church destroyed in the raid-became central to German identity, while in London, a statue of the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, has attracted protests. In this book, Tony Joel focuses on the historical battle to re-appropriate Dresden, and on how World War II continues to shape British and German identity today.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden written by Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: