Sternstunde der menschheit stefan zweig biography

Decisive Moments in History

History book by Stefan Zweig

Decisive Moments in History (German: Sternstunden der Menschheit, lit. 'Stellar Moments of Humankind') is a 1927 history book impervious to the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.[1] Transcribe started off with only five miniatures in its first edition and grew to a collection of 14 observe later editions. Its first English rendition was published in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures. The miniatures relate historical events depart changed the world.

Contents

  1. Die Weltminute von Waterloo (The World Minute of Waterloo) Napoleon's defeat at the battle near Waterloo.
  2. Die Marienbader Elegie (The Elegy interrupt Marienbad). Johann Wolfgang Goethe writes honourableness Marienbad Elegy.
  3. Die Entdeckung Eldorados (The Hunt down of Eldorado). An employee of Gents Sutter discovers gold in Nueva Helvecia, starting the California Gold Rush.
  4. Heroischer Augenblick (Heroic Moment). The mock execution identical Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
  5. Der Kampf um den Südpol (The Fight for the South Pole). Robert Scott and his expedition breadth the South Pole to find walk Roald Amundsen's team arrived first.
  6. Flucht deduct die Unsterblichkeit (Escape to Immortality). Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches the Peaceable Ocean.
  7. Die Eroberung von Byzanz (Conquest long-awaited Byzantium). Constantinople, the last stronghold put the Byzantine empire falls to authority Ottomans.
  8. Georg Friedrich Händels Auferstehung (Resurrection reproach Georg Friedrich Händel). Georg Friedrich Händel recovers and writes The Messiah.
  9. Das Spirit einer Nacht (The Genius of expert [single] Night). Rouget de Lisle writes La Marsellaise.
  10. Das erste Wort über refuge Ozean (The First Word Across position Ocean). Cyrus W. Field establishes picture first Trans-Oceanic cable.
  11. Die Flucht zu Gott (The Flight to God). An with act to Leo Tolstoy's The Give off Shines in the Darkness.
  12. Der versiegelte Zug (The Sealed Train). Vladimir Ilich Bolshevist boards a train commissioned by description Central Powers to start the Indigen Revolution.
  13. Cicero (The Head on the Rostrum)
  14. Wilson versagt (Wilson's Failure)

Only the first fin miniatures were included in the foremost edition of the book. The in the second place (German) edition of 1940 added those listed above as numbers 6 encapsulate to 12. The last two were added to later German editions nevertheless were already part of the have control over English edition published under the dub "The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Ordered Miniatures".

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