James Wyllie

The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany

Nazi Wives

Johnny Actonis

David Glodblatt

The Time Travel Handbook

David Goldblatt

Johnny Acton

Vezüv Yanardaginin Patlamasindan Woodstock Festivaline 18 Yolculuk

Zaman Yolcusunun El Kitabi

kobiety kochające zbrodniarzy

Żony nazistów

Travel through time to witness some of the most extraordinary and colorful events in world history with this unusual and entertaining guide that includes fascinating cultural details from each period, including what and where to eat, what to wear, how to act like a local, and most importantly, how to stay alive. Have you ever wished you could have experienced some of the most interesting and important events that have helped shape history? With The Time Traveler's Handbook you can! Johnny Acton, David Goldblatt, and James Wyllie transport you back in time, providing a “you-are-there” front-seat view of some the greatest moments in the human timeline. Filled with engaging and colorful details, The Time Traveler's Handbook helps you make the most of your “travels,” giving you background information, insight into local customs, and advice on all aspects of period life to make your adventures authentic and help you actually live them. Forget museums and history books—The Time Traveler's Handbook gives you unprecedented access to a wide range of milestones, including Celebrations & Exhibitions; Moments That Made History; Cultural & Sporting Spectaculars; Epic Journeys and Voyages; and Extreme Events. Observe Mount Vesuvius erupt (and survive), see the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, boogie with the Beatles in Hamburg, accompany Marco Polo to Xanadu, attend the opening night of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, smell the cordite at the battle of Bull Run, and sit ringside at Foreman and Ali’s “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasa. Illustrated with color and black-and-white paintings and photographs of famous figures and locations, as well as detailed maps and illustrations to aid in your journey through time, The Time Traveler's Handbook is the ultimate guide to exploring history that unlocks the wonders of the past as never before.

19 Experiences from the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock

The Time Traveler's Handbook

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann—names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men—complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself. Until now, they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husbands' murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labor in their homes, and the produce grown in concentration camps on their tables. James Wyllie's Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skillfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion.

They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and prompting the use of slave labour in his factories. His brother, Albert, loathed Hitler's regime and saved hundreds - possibly thousands - across Europe from Nazi persecution. He deferred to Hermann as head of the family but spent nearly a decade working against his brother's regime. If he had been anyone else, he would have been imprisoned or executed. Despite their extreme and differing beliefs, Hermann sheltered his brother from prosecution and they remained close throughout the war. Here, for the first time, James Wyllie brings Albert out of the shadows and explores the extraordinary relationship of the Goering brothers.

The Nazi and the Renegade

Hermann and Albert Goering

Il 22 luglio 1941 Heinrich Himmler porta la moglie Margarete a visitare il giardino di erbe officinali che ha fatto costruire all’interno del campo di concentramento di Dachau: coltivare insieme piante per preparati omeopatici era stato il sogno che avevano condiviso da giovani innamorati. Il 20 aprile 1945 è il compleanno di Hitler, ed Eva Braun non si rassegna a un festeggiamento tetro, immalinconito dai presagi della disfatta: beve champagne, mette sul grammofono un vecchio disco, cerca di coinvolgere i pochi invitati rimasti in un ballo triste e sfrenato. Dieci giorni più tardi, il primo maggio, Magda Goebbels fa sedare e avvelenare i figli. Poi esce insieme al marito nel giardino del Reichstag e morde una capsula di cianuro; lui le spara alla testa, ingerisce a sua volta il veleno e si spara. Nonostante la storiografia le abbia per lo più ignorate, le donne raccontate in questo libro, mogli, compagne, amanti dei più importanti gerarchi nazisti, sono state letteralmente in primo piano sulla scena della storia. Difficilmente inquadrabili nel cliché della donna docile e sottomessa, queste Naziste hanno avuto un ruolo decisivo nella costruzione e nel consolidamento del Terzo Reich, determinando svolte, conversioni, rotture, alleanze, e conservando tenacemente la memoria dei mariti ben oltre la fine della seconda guerra mondiale. Non rimasero insomma “dietro” gli uomini ingombranti che avevano sposato, come vorrebbe l’abusato modo di dire, inermi custodi della loro vita privata; ma accanto, fianco a fianco nella costruzione quotidiana del più tragico progetto politico di tutti i tempi. Ripercorrendo diari, lettere, libri di memorie, documenti d’archivio, James Wyllie fa emergere un versante sconosciuto della storia del nazismo, e rende più comprensibile la vita interiore, apparentemente inspiegabile e mostruosa, degli uomini che hanno avverato l’incubo hitleriano. E mentre ordisce un fitto intreccio di notazioni psicologiche e trame politiche, faccende personali e questioni diplomatiche, problemi sentimentali e sogni di dominio, Wyllie ci costringe a riconsiderare la tradizionale distinzione tra pubblico e privato, tra fatti storici e gossip. Perché, parafrasando la celebre intuizione di Hannah Arendt, è necessario fare storicamente i conti con la “normalità” del male, con la sua domestica e feroce quotidianità. «James Wyllie racconta le storie delle mogli di Göring, Goebbels, Himmler e altri gerarchi, costruendo un prisma inedito attraverso il quale guardare al periodo nazista.» - The Guardian

Le mogli al vertice del Terzo Reich

Naziste

David Lowe

Jiten Vara

The authors frequently run talks, discussions and workshops on Agile and Lean approaches. Over the years, they have collated the questions that students ask, and the 101 most common ones about Agile with Scrum are answered in this book. So, whether you are new to agile and Scrum, or have been using it for a while, they aim to help answer some of the questions that you have wanted to ask but haven't had the opportunity

The Most Frequently Asked Questions about Agile with Scrum

Scrum 101

Andrew Anderson

J. Seton

The Games of Draughts as Played Between Andrew Anderson and James Wyllie for the Championship of Scotland in 1847

An entertaining and informative travel 'guidebook' to some of the most important events in world history.

From Pompeii to Woodstock

There is a continuing interest in the history of Hitler's Third Reich. This is a quirky, untold story of Hitler's Third Reich that uncovers the Goring brothers' bizarre relationship. It is illustrated with many rare archive photographs.

The Story of Hermann and Albert Goering

The Warlord and the Renegade

Michael McKinley

"While battalions hunkered down in the mud of western France, anti-aircraft guns took aim at zeppelins floating over the capital, and Atlantic convoys tried desperately to evade German U-boats, another, more secret battle was underway. Down gloomy Whitehall corridors a team of eccentric and pioneering codebreakers were fighting for information that would give them a decisive advantage over the enemy. The new technologies of wireless and telegraph were vital for governments and the military, but vulnerable to interception. Cracking the codes used to protect them quickly became a crucial part of the war effort, and London Room 40, led by the charismatic and cunning Blinker' Hall, was at the centre of this push for intelligence. Not content to wait for enemy communications to come to him, Hall was soon running agents in other countries, particularly in neutral USA where German saboteurs were intent on damaging the essential flow of munitions to Britain. The stories of Bletchley Park and the spies of the Second World War are well known, but it was Room 40 and their colleagues across the intelligence services that started it all. From the docks of New York City to shady Cairo hotels, this is the gripping and fast-paced story of spies, codebreakers and saboteurs."

The Secret Intelligence Unit That Changed the Course of the First World War

The Codebreakers

Not many of us can claim to have dipped our handkerchiefs in Charles I's blood after his execution, or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that's about to change... Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt's Time Travel Handbook offers eighteen exceptional trips to the past, transporting you back to the greatest spectacles in history. We offer the chance to join Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and to march on Versailles with the revolutionary women of Paris. You can sail with Captain Cook to Tahiti and Australia, and spend time at Xanadu with Marco Polo and Kubla Khan. Or, closer to the present, you might accompany Charlie Parker at the birth of bebop or The Beatles in Hamburg, and take part in the VE Day celebrations in London or the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The notable authors and time travel agents, Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt are your guide to these and other unmissable events, charting the action as it will unfold, and advising on local customs, and what to wear, eat and drink, for the most authentic of experiences. Forget museums, forget history books - the only way to do history is to live it.

James Wyllie

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