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The Fall of Berlin 1945
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Antony Beevor
This history of the final days of World War II tells of the carnage as Allied troops advanced on Berlin, and Hitler issued orders from his bunker. Beevor depicts the plight of the people in the street and the soldiers, as well as the competition between Russia and the other Allies to reach Berlin first.
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Spandau Phoenix
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Greg Iles
This book offers a superb thriller from the bestselling author Greg Iles. The Spandau Diary - what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped and sexually tormented to get it? Why did the entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over ...
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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Anonymous, Philip Boehm (Translator)
With shocking and vivid detail, the journal of a woman living through the Russian occupation of Berlin in 1945 tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject and describes the common experience of millions.
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
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Andrei Cherny
Cherny presents a masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history.
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Philip Boehm (Translator)
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
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Every Man Dies Alone
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Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann (Translator), Geoff Wilkes (Afterword by)
This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
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Rosa
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Jonathan Rabb
A murdered revolutionary . . . A vicious serial killer . . . A city in chaos . . . All lead to Rosa. In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his young assistant, Hans Fichte, ...
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Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
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Anne Nelson
The poignant story of a circle of ordinary Germans in Berlin who, through their contacts in film, theater, propaganda, academia, government, and the military, conspired to bring down the Nazis.
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
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Frederick Taylor
Gripping and authoritative, Taylors definitive work is the first comprehensive account of the most enduring symbol of the Cold War. 16-page b&w photo insert.
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Garden of Beasts
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Jeffery Deaver
This standalone historical thriller by the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series pits a mobster against the Third Reich. The government sets a trap for Paul Schumann, a German-American hitman for the mob, and once Paul springs it, offers him a choice: prison or the chance to do what he does best, but for Uncle Sam this time. Posing as a journalist ...
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The Berlin Stories
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Christopher Isherwood
The two novels in this volume, THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS and GOODBYE TO BERLIN, were first published in 1935 and 1938, and represent Isherwood's best-known, most widely praised works of fiction. They depict such characters as Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught in the struggle between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fr ...
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Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
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Cornelius Ryan
Ryan's well-known ability to recreate the sights and sounds of war with breathtaking immediacy resounds in this portrait of the last Allied offensive against Hitler's Third Reich--the Battle for Berlin. 52 photos. 4 maps.
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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
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Otto Friedrich
This evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes "the most vivid portrait of the period yet written . . . The culture is plentiful and the gossip is spicy".--Time.
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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
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Margot Theis Raven, Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen (Illustrator)
This picture book tells the true story of an American pilot who, during the post-World War II Berlin Airlift, began dropping tiny parachutes filled with chocolates from his plane down to the children on the streets of West Berlin. One little girl named Margot, who was never able to catch one, sent a letter to Lt. Gail Halvorsen, the pilot who ...
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Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World
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Juliana Lee Hatkoff (As Told by), Isabella Hatkoff (As Told by), Craig M Hatkoff (As Told by)
When Knut was born, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, he was no bigger than a snowball and unable to care for himself. His mother, a rescued East German circus bear, didn't know how to take care of Knut and rejected him. Knut would have died if it weren't for Thomas Dorflein, a zookeeper who nurtured Knut, ...
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The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story
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Peter Schneider, Leigh Hafrey (Translator)
The Berlin Wall is represented in this novel as more personal than politically symbolic. Real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves. The Wall has divided their emotions as well as their country.
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Berlin
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Malgorzata Omilanowska (Contributions by)
A dazzling new guide to the new capital of Germany, DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin shows why this historic city is an increasingly popular destination for many business and vacation travelers. Over 850 full-color photographs and street-by-street maps cover the wide range of all the major sights - including museums, historic and modern ...
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Op. JB
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Christopher Creighton
During the 1930s, the Nazi Party looted thousands of pounds, hiding the proceeds in secret accounts. The key to getting it back lay with Nazi treasurer, Martin Bormann. This book tells the story of Ian Fleming's raid to snatch Bormann out of Berlin. Creighton led a commando raid into the city.
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Iron Men
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Leonard B Scott
A sweeping novel that spans the headlines of Berlin's last half century, from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Charlie Mike. Two German officers manage to escape at the end of World War II; decades later, their fates will be entangled with a soldier of the new generation.
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Brandenburg Gate
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Henry Porter
In this "accomplished retro thriller" ("The Sunday Telegraph"), Porter captures the tense final moments of the Berlin Wall in the multilayered story of a former foreign agent faced with unbearable choices.
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Charity: A New Bernard Samson Novel
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Len Deighton
In the final volume of a trilogy that began with "Faith" and "Hope" British Secret Service agent Bernard Samson must investigate unanswered questions within his own family.
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Charity
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Len Deighton
In the final volume of a trilogy that began with "Faith" and "Hope" British Secret Service agent Bernard Samson must investigate unanswered questions within his own family.
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Winter: A Novel of a Berlin Family
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Len Deighton
In Germany, the lives of brothers Peter and Pauli Winter take different but interconnected paths against the backdrop of World War II.
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Trudy's Promise
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Marcia Preston
Trudy Hulst has no idea if her husband survived his escape past the newly erected Berlin Wall. Branded the wife of a defector, she faces life in prison. Forced to follow him, Trudy prays she can claim their child once she's in West Berlin, but her journey leads her to America. Original.
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A Rose Remembered
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Michael Phillips
"A Rose Remembered" is a continuation of the gripping story of a noble Prussian family's plight following World War II. With help from the Jewish underground, Savina continues her relentless search for her father, while working to stay hidden from the man she almost married.
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