Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic. Their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea a cat-and-mouse game begins, where the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the depth charges that explode around it. Of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned. Written by a survivor of the U-boat fleet, Das Boot is a psychological drama merciless in its intensity, and a classic novel of World War II.

    Skilfully interwoven with each other, Theo Aronson's accounts of these reigns, abdications and exiles capture the scope and variety of what Victoria used to call the Royal Mob.' Elizabeth Longford Ever since the instant success of his first book The Golden Bees: The Story of the Bonapartes, Theo Aronson has steadily built up his reputation as an historical biographer specializing in the Royal Houses of Europe. Among his many widely read books are Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story, Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918 and The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses. His books have been published in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland and Belgium; in paperback, in book club editions and in serialization. THE KING IN LOVE: King Edward VII's Mistresses 'I found it totally absorbing... a thoroughly enjoyable book from start to finish.' Auberon Waugh, The Independent 'Mr Aronson is scrupulously fair . . . his book is entertaining and lively.' Brian Masters, The Standard NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE: A Love Story 'He tells their story superbly well . . . Aronson has a wonderful eye for significant detail as well as a shrewd appreciation of character. Above all his book is wonderfully readable.' Patrick Taylor-Martin, Sunday Times 'Mr Aronson, an exceptional authority on the world's crowned or once crowned heads, makes Josephine irresistible . . . absorbing and scholarly.' Alastair Forbes, Sunday Telegraph

    This book tells the story of their extraordinary friendship, and gives fascinating insight into Hitler's character during these formative years.

    The passionate brooding which pervades his nine symphonies, his choral and vocal works, has led others to hail him as the artist who best articulated the inner conflicts and struggles of his neurotic and driven age.Henry-Louis de La Grange, in this huge biography, looks at the tempestuous life of this man whose impact on music--as conductor and composer--was extraordinary. There is nothing written about Mahler, no page that he himself ever wrote, no sketch of music that he ever made that M. de La Grange hasn't studied. He is as systematic a biographer as Mahler was conductor and creator of music. The result is the only definitive biography of Mahler ever written.Born in 1860, one of fourteen children of a modest Jewish innkeeper in Kalischt, Bohemia, Mahler studied at the Vienna Conservatory. Afterwards, came years of deprivation and disappointment as he served as conductor to small provincial orchestras. He moved from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig, then worked his way up in 1888 to an important post in Budapest and then in 1891 to a position in Hamburg. The book culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the Vienna Opera House. The present volume culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the Vienna Opera House. The present volume takes up to meeting with Alma Mahler.Throughout, Mahler is revealed as an often difficult man, full of complexities and contradictions, insecurities and surprises. Always in sharp focus is the picture of Mahler, the perfectionist, tirelessly pursuing his art, often ignoring family and friends, relentlessly battling anyone who stood in the way of his music. Performers stormed off the stage during rehearsals with the "tyrant." Audiences walked out on the "revolutionary" interpretation of the classics. And anti-Semitic critics denounced him as that "Jewish conductor."The whole turbulent cultural ferment of the era is reflected in this book and the author has provided extraordinary thumbnail sketches of some of the giants of the time: Bruckner, Brahams, Strauss, and the conductor Bruno Walter, among others.

    This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time.

    A lengthy critique of Kant's apriorism precedes discussions on the ethical principles of eudaemonism, utilitarianism, pragmatism, and positivism.

    

    

    

    After an introduction that places Hitler and the Nazi regime in the perspective of German history, Professor Rich relates Hitler's actual theories to the rise of the Nazi state and the development of a system of men and institutions dedicated to carrying out the Führer's orders. This system was to provide the machinery of expansion that becomes the focus of this study, as the spread of the Nazis is traced in detail from the annexation of Austria to Hitler's attack on Russia and declaration of war against the United States.