Vom Kampf um Völkerfreiheit!
So, another book by the somewhat deranged Dulon has arrived, 'Vom Kampf un Völkerfreiheit', 1849/50. Two volumes in one binding for 33 Euros. Not so…
Read more →So, another book by the somewhat deranged Dulon has arrived, 'Vom Kampf un Völkerfreiheit', 1849/50. Two volumes in one binding for 33 Euros. Not so…
Read more →For now at least. So yesterday morning before going to work I finally finished the second volume of v.d. Marwitz's Nachlasse (on Frederick the Great's…
Read more →Happy Birthday Königreich Preußen! On this day in 1701 Friedrich I was crowned King in Prussia at Königsberg, some things should be remembered. Was…
Read more →Neues altes Buch: Geist der Zeit von Ernst Moritz Arndt, 1806. Band 1, erste Ausgabe, €94. Ich freue mich auf einen Angriff auf den Pferdedieb.
Read more →Frohes neues Jahr! (Mal schauen...) I found the following passage, actually a large footnote, from v.d. Marwitz's Nachlasse (Volume 2, page 284) very…
Read more →This little announcement in the Teltower Kreisblatt from 13th December 1856, tucked away amidst all the Christmas adverts, made me laugh: In essence:…
Read more →A nice purchase this week from Abe Books, all five volumes of Treitschke's Deutsche Geschichte, all by the same publisher but with different dates…
Read more →Johann Kühnau, Lieutenant in the Landwehr, fell in the battle of Hagelsberg, bei Lübnitz, on the 27th August 1813, just one of many civilians who…
Read more →Heute vor 287 (1730) Jahren wurde Hans Hermann von Katte im Festung Küstrin enthauptet. The court martial judgement makes for interesting reading, the…
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