Overview :Germany's cultural glory and for a time Germany's political shame: the operatic festival established by Richard Wagner in 1876 is one of the... Read More
Overview :Italy is the world's sixth economic power, lies in a key geopolitical position, and was a founding member of NATO and the European Community... Read More
Overview :Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparative... Read More
Overview :The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able ... Read More
Overview :A startling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts's Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is a deftly argued and highl... Read More