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by Melita Maschmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self by Melita Maschmann (translated from the German by Geoffrey Strachan, with a new introduction and an afterword by Marianne Schweitzer Burkenroad with Helen Epstein; 98,000 words, 10 photographs)
Account Rendered was first published in Germany in...
Beyond Uncertainty
Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A physicist and a historian, Cassidy writes about science and political history with equal authority. Since the publication of David Cassidy's definitive biography of Werner Heisenberg, "Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg" in 1992, new information has emerged on this...
by William L. Shirer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to cover up their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s definitive book on the Third Reich uses these unique sources. Combined with his personal experience with the Nazis, living through the war as an international...
Absolute War
Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and...
Hunting Evil
The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), *Hunting...
by Rick Steves
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Munich and Salzburg:
City walks and tours: Five detailed self-guided walks including a Munich city walk, Nymphenburg Palace tour, Sound of Music Tour, and more
Rick's...
Perfect Phrases in German for Confident Travel : The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip: The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip
The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
More than your average phrasebook, this portable title shows you how to be a well-mannered visitor and speak the local language in the correct context
Any phrasebook can give you a line listing of essential phrases. But if you use a phrase or term without knowing the correct way to use it,...
Berlin Now
The City After the Wall
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe**'s most charismatic and enigmatic city**
It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona...
The Long Night
William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The story of legendary American journalist William L. Shirer and how his first-hand reporting on the rise of the Nazis and on World War II brought the devastation alive for millions of Americans
When William L. Shirer started up the Berlin bureau of Edward R. Murrow's CBS News in the 1930s,...
by Joseph Roth
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001
The classic portrait of a vanished people.
Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these...
The Gestapo
A History of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
At dawn, they saw her masts on the horizon and immediately prepared for battle. They were up against a formidable foe; the Admiral Graf Spee had already sunk nine British merchant ships in the South Atlantic. Now, her modern prototype diesel engines were set at maximum power and she was heading...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945
Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A new comprehensive biography of this hugely important Christian martyr, 60 years after his execution at the hands of the Nazis
Bonhoeffer has gained a position as one of the most prominent Christian martyrs of the last century. His influence is so widespread that even 60 years after his execution...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical...