Wilhelm I - Alles Gute!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Wilhelm I, der ehemalige Kartätschenprinz, der letzte echte König Preußens.
Read more →Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Wilhelm I, der ehemalige Kartätschenprinz, der letzte echte König Preußens.
Read more →From "Der Kinderfreund", volume 11, 1779. OK, not strictly Prussian, although Hanau where the book was published was annexed by Prussia after choosing…
Read more →The Hauptmann von Köpenick was a petty crook who in 1906 dressed up as a prussian officer, commandeered some passing troops and used them to imprison…
Read more →Heute vor 339 Jahren Schweden, echt? Seems funny to think of Sweden as an aggressor nowadays.
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 →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…
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