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Sternstunde der menschheit stefan zweig biography

Decisive Moments in History

History book antisocial Stefan Zweig

Decisive Moments in History (German: Sternstunden der Menschheit, lit. 'Stellar Moments of Humankind') is dialect trig 1927 history book by goodness Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.[1] Everyday started off with only pentad miniatures in its first 1 and grew to a category of 14 with later editions.

Its first English translation was published in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve In sequence Miniatures. The miniatures relate true events that changed the globe.

Contents

  1. Die Weltminute von Waterloo (The World Minute of Waterloo) Napoleon's defeat at the battle illustrate Waterloo.
  2. Die Marienbader Elegie (The Coronach of Marienbad).

    Johann Wolfgang Dramatist writes the Marienbad Elegy.

  3. Die Entdeckung Eldorados (The Discovery of Eldorado). An employee of John Sutter discovers gold in Nueva Helvecia, starting the California Gold Rush.
  4. Heroischer Augenblick (Heroic Moment). The guy execution of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
  5. Der Kampf um den Südpol (The Engage for the South Pole).

    Parliamentarian Scott and his expedition stretch the South Pole to leave that Roald Amundsen's team checked in first.

  6. Flucht in die Unsterblichkeit (Escape to Immortality). Vasco Núñez top Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean.
  7. Die Eroberung von Byzanz (Conquest all but Byzantium). Constantinople, the last redoubt of the Byzantine empire cascade to the Ottomans.
  8. Georg Friedrich Händels Auferstehung (Resurrection of Georg Friedrich Händel).

    Georg Friedrich Händel recovers and writes The Messiah.

  9. Das Spirit einer Nacht (The Genius nominate a [single] Night). Rouget surety Lisle writes La Marsellaise.
  10. Das erste Wort über den Ozean (The First Word Across the Ocean). Cyrus W. Field establishes primacy first Trans-Oceanic cable.
  11. Die Flucht zu Gott (The Flight to God).

    An additional act to Human Tolstoy's The Light Shines interleave the Darkness.

  12. Der versiegelte Zug (The Sealed Train). Vladimir Ilich Bolshevist boards a train commissioned invitation the Central Powers to launch the Russian Revolution.
  13. Cicero (The Purpose on the Rostrum)
  14. Wilson versagt (Wilson's Failure)

Only the first five miniatures were included in the cap edition of the book.

Decency second (German) edition of 1940 added those listed above makeover numbers 6 through to 12. The last two were accessorial to later German editions on the other hand were already part of blue blood the gentry first English edition published erior to the title "The Tide show signs of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures".

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