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1	Night more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's account of his own experiences in the camps during World War II has become a classic of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hiding Place more books like this by Corrie Ten Boom add to wishlist As the Nazis swept through Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of God. This is Corrie's story of how her family offered shelter to persecuted Jews, how the family was betrayed and imprisoned, and yet they retained their faith. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.68! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall more books like this by Michael Meyer add to wishlist Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $15.52! \| SVS
4	The Hiding Place more books like this by Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten Boom, John L Sherrill add to wishlist This is the remarkable story of Corrie Ten Boom and her family who, at risk of their lives, followed the mandate of their Christian understanding by providing refuge to Jews marked for death by Nazi forces occupying the Netherlands during World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions
5	Trudy's Promise more books like this by Marcia Preston add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
6	Brandenburg Gate more books like this by Henry Porter add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Contract more books like this by Gerald Seymour add to wishlist Discharged from the army, Johnny Donoghue is eager to earn his redemption. His assignment is to infiltrate East Germany and arrange the defection of a top-flight scientist working on the Russian missile systems. But no one warned Johnny of the traps in store. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.01! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster more books like this by Markus Wolf, Anne McElvoy add to wishlist For three decades, Markus Wolf was the head of East Germany's intelligence service, which was widely regarded as being the most effective spying organization in the Eastern Block. This is his story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A History of Prussia more books like this by H W Koch add to wishlist In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic story, and H. W. Koch fills a major gap in English-language literature with this comprehensive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| first editions
10	Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police more books like this by John O Koehler add to wishlist The definitive history of the powerful and brutal East German Secret Police. In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germanys Ministry for State Security, or Stasi. The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of ... see all copies from $5.54! new only from $13.13! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 more books like this by Norman M Naimark add to wishlist In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated". This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany ... see all copies from $15.99! new only from $30.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany more books like this by Victor Grossman, Mark Solomon (Editor) add to wishlist What could impel a privileged 24-year-old American serving in the US Army in Germany in 1952 to swim across the Danube River to what was then referred to as the Soviet Zone? Why did he decide to forsake the land of his birth and build a new life in the young German Democratic Republic? These are the questions at the core of this memoir by Victor ... see all copies from $7.56! new only from $21.95! \| signed copies \| SVS
13 view cover	Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 more books like this by Joshua Feinstein add to wishlist This publication confronts the question of whether movies in the Eastern Bloc were propaganda or secretly veiled dissent. It argues that the answer to the question is decidedly complex. Drawing on newly opened archives with East German directors, actors, and state officials, it traces the change in cinematic depiction of East Germany in response ... see all copies from $6.90! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany more books like this by Uta G Poiger add to wishlist In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the new styles. Poiger reveals that East and West ... see all copies from $23.39! new only from $23.39! \| SVS
15 view cover	Faust's Gold: Inside the East German Doping Machine more books like this by Steven Ungerleider, Ph.D. add to wishlist In this account, an American physician describes the steroid usage behind East Germany's swim teams' success during the 1970s and '80s. He reveals how East German officials collaborated with doctors to push athletic ability-boosting drugs on naive teens, noting the long-term health problems that the unlucky champions suffered as result. He also ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $16.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	A Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff, 1807-1945 more books like this by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy add to wishlist see all copies from $2.67! first editions
17	Colditz: The Full Story more books like this by P R Reid add to wishlist Manned by a German garrison, floodlit from every angle, the Nazis called Colditz "escape proof". The Allied officers called it a challenge. Reid has written the definitive story of the men who tunnelled, ran, fought and even tried to fly their way to freedom. Martin's. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.91! \| first editions
18 view cover	They have their exits more books like this by Airey Neave add to wishlist The Bestselling Escape Memoir of the Second World War. Airey Neave recaptures the heroism and bravery of many men during the Second World War. Wounded and captured at Calais in May 1940, he was a persistent escaper, eventually being sent to the "escape-proof" Colditz Castle in Germany. But he was soon to become the first British officer to make a ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $27.17! \| first editions
19 view cover	Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys more books like this by Jeffrey Herf add to wishlist A history of the political reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War. Herf describes how the initial attempts, in both West and East Germany, to purge the new governments of former Nazis ran aground--partly because of the lack of non-Party members, and partly due to the increasing tensions of the Cold War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.59! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Above All Earthly Powers more books like this by Jack Cavanaugh add to wishlist Songs in the Night book 3, the sequel to the award-winning His Watchful Eye. Following World War II, little has changed in Berlin. The Swastika has been replaced by the Hammer and Sickle, the soldiers by secret police, but a life of daily oppression and fear remains. Inspired by the memory of Joseph Schumacher, his widow forms a contentious ... see all copies from $2.83!
21 view cover	The File: A Person History more books like this by Ash Timothy Garton, Timothy Garton Ash, Timothy Garton Ash add to wishlist A journalist renowned for his coverage of the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe produces a gripping personal account of state surveillance and individual betrayal in Cold War Germany. see all copies from $7.48! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Sartor resartus : the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books more books like this by Thomas Carlyle add to wishlist First published in serial form in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1833-1834, "Sartor Resartus" was discovered by the American Transcendentalists and became one of the important texts of 19th-century English literature. This edition is the second volume of an eight-volume series of the classic work. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $110.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh more books like this by Thomas Carlyle add to wishlist Contents Include: Preliminary - Editorial Difficulties - Reminiscences - Characteristics - The World in Clothes - Aprons - Miscellaneous, Historical - The World out of Clothes - Adamitism - Pure Reason - Prospective - Genesis - Idyllic - Pedagogy - Getting Under Way - Romance - Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh - The Everlasting No - Centre Indifference - ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $9.90! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Heroes like us more books like this by Thomas Brussig add to wishlist Klaus works for the secret police in East Berlin during the Cold War, but spends most of his time doing pointless surveillance work among his family and neighbors while his parents try to keep young Klaus's sexual urges under control. Then, when he is 21, a weird accident drastically alters the size of his penis. This comic satire is one of the ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $16.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Colditz Story more books like this by P R Reid add to wishlist Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz, the Germans reasoned, escape was impossible. And yet during the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions

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