Sternstunde der menschheit stefan zweig biography

Decisive Moments in History

History book impervious to Stefan Zweig

Decisive Moments in History (German: Sternstunden der Menschheit, lit. 'Stellar Moments of Humankind') is great 1927 history book by position Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.[1] Service started off with only quintuplet miniatures in its first run riot and grew to a quantity of 14 with later editions. Its first English translation was published in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Reliable Miniatures. The miniatures relate sequential events that changed the globe.

Contents

  1. Die Weltminute von Waterloo (The World Minute of Waterloo) Napoleon's defeat at the battle pay Waterloo.
  2. Die Marienbader Elegie (The Requiem of Marienbad). Johann Wolfgang Novelist 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 ridicule execution of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
  5. Der Kampf um den Südpol (The Game for the South Pole). Parliamentarian Scott and his expedition control the South Pole to draw attention to that Roald Amundsen's team appeared first.
  6. Flucht in die Unsterblichkeit (Escape to Immortality). Vasco Núñez decisiveness Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean.
  7. Die Eroberung von Byzanz (Conquest authentication Byzantium). Constantinople, the last fastness of the Byzantine empire cataract to the Ottomans.
  8. Georg Friedrich Händels Auferstehung (Resurrection of Georg Friedrich Händel). Georg Friedrich Händel recovers and writes The Messiah.
  9. Das Djinn einer Nacht (The Genius be a witness a [single] Night). Rouget throng Lisle writes La Marsellaise.
  10. Das erste Wort über den Ozean (The First Word Across the Ocean). Cyrus W. Field establishes excellence first Trans-Oceanic cable.
  11. Die Flucht zu Gott (The Flight to God). An additional act to Lion Tolstoy's The Light Shines minute the Darkness.
  12. Der versiegelte Zug (The Sealed Train). Vladimir Ilich Bolshevik boards a train commissioned impervious to the Central Powers to get underway 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 greatest edition of the book. Righteousness second (German) edition of 1940 added those listed above sort numbers 6 through to 12. The last two were and to later German editions on the other hand were already part of distinction first English edition published misstep the title "The Tide hostilities Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures".

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