Giles MacDonogh, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-27673-7
Wilhelm II, the infamous "Kaiser Bill" of WWI, has long been seen as the principal instigator of that catastrophe. In the first biography of the kaiser in over 30 years, historian and journalist MacDonogh (Frederick the Great) intends to set
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Giles MacDonogh, Author St. Martin's Press $30 (540p) ISBN 978-0-312-18537-4
Journalist and historian MacDonogh has written most extensively about food and drink, particularly in the German-speaking lands. So while there's plenty of history here, MacDonogh is the sort of writer who's fully aware that it's not just fine words
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Giles MacDonogh, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-25318-9
MacDonogh's stated purpose in this biography is to recover the real Frederick from the various ""imposters,"" the different versions of the Prussian king that have been current at different times and for different purposes (Frederick the Hero,...
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Giles MacDonogh, Author . Basic $32 (618p) ISBN 978-0-465-00337-2
This absorbing study of the Allied occupation of Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1949 shows that the end of WWII by no means ended the suffering. A vengeful Red Army visited on German women an ordeal of mass rape, while looting the Soviet...
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Giles MacDonogh, Author . Basic $27.50 (324p) ISBN 978-0-465-00954-1
Might-have-beens haunt this insightful narrative of a watershed in the history of Nazi Germany. MacDonogh (After the Reich
) chronicles milestones in the development of a radicalized, expansionist Third Reich in the year 1938: the forcible...
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