A lucid, readable history of Greece and Greek culture from the earliest Aegean civilization to the Roman Conquest.
"Authoritative, illuminating and easy to read. . . . Dr. Eyck, in his excellent book, has exposed the many fallacies of which Bismarck legend is compounded. His analysis is tragic and austere."-The Observer
Vanguard of Nazism is the first full history of the Free Corps Movement which arose in Germany after World War I. Robert Waite's... Læs mere
A definitive biography of the great eighteenth century Venetian composer of the Baroque.
The letters Rilke wrote during the war and postwar years are of particular interest not only for whatever they may contain of the wisdom of the poet, the artist, and the humanitarian, but for their analysis of the intellectual and spiritual currents of the time.
Recreates the struggles within plague-stricken Italy, relating events that led to a confrontation between the advocates of science and the followers of faith.