G. J. Meyer – författare

In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to the throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, crossed the English Channel from France at the head of a ragtag little army and took the crown from the family that had ruled England for almost four hundred years. Half a century later, his son, Henry VIII, desperate to rid himself of his first wife in order to marry a second, launched a reign of terror aimed at taking powers no previous monarch had even dreamed of possessing. In the process he plunged his kingdom into generations of division and disorder, creating a legacy of blood and betrayal that would blight the lives of his children and the destiny of his country.The Tudors weaves together all the sinners and saints, the tragedies and triumphs, the high dreams and dark crimes that reveal the Tudor era to be, in its enthralling, notorious truth, as momentous and as fascinating as its portrayal in fiction.

This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world.On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with Britain as her ally. No one could guess what lay ahead: years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until that moment had dominated the globe.

This second volume begins with the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of the Great War and one of the most terrible ever fought. By the beginning of 1916 the French had already suffered 2 million casualties. Russia was crippled. Von Falkenhayn now believed ‘The forces of France will bleed to death.’Through the unimaginable horrors of the Somme, the entry of the US into the war and the ‘final throw of the dice’, the spring 1918 Kaiserslacht, G. J. Meyer marshals the evidence brilliantly to show why the General was wrong. Much of the agony is in the detail: after the Armistice, while the victors debated the new world order, perhaps a quarter of a million German civilians, many of them children, died of starvation and disease under a pointless naval blockade.

Die nuklearmedizinische Funktionsdiagnostik wird durch den Einsatz von zyklotron- produzierten Radionukliden in der Zukunft wesentlich beeinfluBt und erweitert. Gerade zu dem Zeitpunkt, zu dem dieser Band erscheint, sind sowohl aus technischer, als auch aus medizinischer Sicht bedeutende Entwicklungen im Gange. Die Produktion der positronen-strahlenden Radionuklide, die Synthesen von Radiopharmaka, sowie ihre Quali- Hitskontrolle sind dabei ein Faktor. Andererseits muB durch eine aufwendige Gerateentwick- lung zur Messung und Darstellung des Radiopharmaka-Stoffwechsels die Moglichkeit ge- schaffen werden, daB nuklearmedizinische Zentren ihre bisherigen groBen Erfahrungen in die Funktionsanalyse einbringen konnen. Das wesentliche fUr die Diagnostik ist, die Funktion einzelner Organabschnitte bildhaft darzustellen, dies dreidimensional und quantitativ. Die Entwicklungs- und Erprobungsphase fUr die Anwendung der Emissionstomographie ist noch nicht beendet. Dieser Band beinhaltet dies und gibt einen Einblick in die gesamte Problematik. H.HUNDESHAGEN Hannover Preface Functional diagnosis employing nuclear medicine will in the future be influenced and extended through the use of radionuclides produced in a cyclotron. Just as this book is being published, developments are taking place which are significant from both technical and clinical points of view. Examples are the production of radio nuclides emitting positrons, the synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals, and the supervision of the quality of the latter. On the other hand, it is necessary for equipment to be developed in order to measure and depict the metabolism of radiopharmaceuticals, in order to let the centers for nuclear medicine contribute their great experience to the analysis of function.