Louis Leo Snyder bol americko-nemecký učenec, ktorý predvídal Hitlerov vzostup k moci. Jeho diela sa hlboko ponorili do nacistického hnutia a jeho ideológie. Snyder analyzoval totalitné metódy a psychológiu masy, čím poskytol prenikavý pohľad na podstatu nacizmu. Jeho spisy zostávajú cenným zdrojom pre pochopenie tejto temnej kapitoly európskych dejín.
This reference book covers the rise of National Socialism to the fall of the Third Reich in May 1945, and also carries selected entries on the Weimar Republic which proceeded Hitler and on the Bonn Republic which succeeded him.
A look at certain important events which stand out as being "turning points" in history such The Battle of Marathon, Crucifixion of Jesus, Flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, Battle of Tours, Coronation of Charlemagne, Magna Carta, Discovery of America, Spanish Armada, Fall of Bastille, and many others.