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Volker Reinhardt ventures right into a complete cultural historical past of France.

Our reviewer Lena Bopp writes about Reinhardt that he’s “an outstanding stylist”, and “the somewhat small -scale structure of his book predestines to become a popular reference work. But access to almost a thousand years of history is also easier because Reinhardt knows his fabric on elegant, never effective way”.

Volker Reinhardt: “Esprit and Passion”. Cultural historical past of France. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2025. 656 p., Fig., Born, 38, – €.

Andreas Neuenkirchen tells the historical past of the karaoke, which along with hourly resorts and cockroaches additionally embrace murders and Bruce Springsteen.

According to Kai Spank, “not just a story of the karaoke as a cultural setting, but also as part of the technology development. On top of that, some passages of his moody tour, which is recommended as a German -language addition to Rob Sheffields 2013, is recommended in a cultural leader”. All in all, you shouldn’t take the e-book too severely or smile at.

Andreas Neuenkirchen: “completely detached”. How Karaoke conquered the world. Leykam Verlag, Graz/Vienna 2025. 304 S., born, 25, – €.

“It is a mapping and clean-up work carried out with verve and at the same time patient reading that Thomä demonstrates on the post-terrain,” emphasizes Helmut Mayer, “the preceding, large-scale genealogy does not prevent him from working. Thomä shows it, you can’t actually negotiate them at all. ”

Dieter Thomä: “Post-“. Objection to a pre -pilot. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2025. 396 S., born, 28, – €.

Wolfgang Büscher travels the Sahara and finds the story of Charles de Foucauld, who was canonized by Pope Francis in 2022.

Our reviewer Hannes Hintermeier applauds the creator: “Never sticks to chronology or actual journey information, he by no means is tempted to ship a cultural historical past of the desert. What did the will for deserts have aroused?

Wolfgang Büscher: “The Way”. A visit via the Sahara. DTV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2025. 236 pages, born, 24, – €.

Stig Förster traces German navy historical past from the sixteenth century to the Second World War.

Andreas Kilb writes: “The focus of Förster’s e-book is on the 20 th century. His presentation combines all the benefits and downsides of an general view, it’s clear the place it traces the massive traces, and uncertain within the small traces, for instance within the description of the financial chaos, which the de-facto navy dictatorship Hindenburg and Ludendorff from 1916 in battle drained German Empire struck. ” Military history is economy and Förster’s book comes at the right time. However, “one mustn’t learn it as a directions to be used for the current. The creator has accomplished his manuscript earlier than the election of Donald Trump as an American president, which supplies the ‘German navy historical past’ a historic transfer.”

Stig Förster: “German military history”. From early fashionable instances to the current. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2025. 1294 p., Fig., Born, € 49.90.