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Grosse Landerkarte 1:300.000: Mit Einer Ubersichtskarte, Fahrverbindungen Und Einem Stadtplan Von Athen (GeoCenter Euro Map) (German Edition): Reise- Und Verkehrsverlag

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Text: German (translation)

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Baader Meinhof: Pictures on the Run 67-77: Astrid Proll

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A photo album from the living rooms of quasi-communist German terrorists should be of exquisitely narrow appeal, but Astrid Proll, a former Red Army Faction activist turned documentarian, does more than offer old snapshots here. The attempt of her academic-turned-revolutionary comrades to ignite a civil war in Germany, she writes, was both “ruthless and useless,” the product of too many drugs and too many rarefied ideas about mass movements and the class struggle. “We overestimated ourselves ridiculously,” she writes, “indulging in the illusion that a revolution was thinkable in the prosperous Federal Republic.” The Baader-Meinhof gang’s misadventures resulted not in revolution but murder, and in the violent deaths of many of the protagonists. Proll’s pictures tell the story. –Gregory MacNamee

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…however daunting many of the pictures are, carefully chosen photographic images, like words, tell selective stories, and in this respect hers is all too one-sided. — The New York Times Book Review, V.R. Berghahn

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Antike Geographische Namen Nordlich der Alpen: Mit einem Beitrag von Hermann Reichert : "Germanien in der Sicht des Ptolemaios" (Ergaenzungsbaende Zum … der Germanischen Altertums) (German Edition): Gerhard Rasch

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Old geographic names often shed light on the linguistic and cultural conditions of the “Dark Ages” and are of high value to the field of archaeology. This study from the year 1950, published here for the first time, offers a meticulous collection of all names (especially, landmarks and rivers) reported by Greek and Latin writers. In the appendix, Hermann Reichert illustrates the merits of the Alexandrine geographer Klaudios Ptolemaios (2nd century).

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