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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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Justice at Nuremberg
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Robert E. Conot
Here, for the first time in one volume, is the full story of crimes committed by the Nazi leaders and of the trials in which they were brought to judgement. Conot reconstructs in a single absorbing narrative not only the events at Nuremburg but the offenses with which the accused were charged. He brilliantly characterizes each of the twenty-one ...
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Billiards at half past nine
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Heinrich Böll
Robert Fachmel, a vehement opponent of Nazism, is nevertheless a soldier at the end of World War II (as was Böll), in command of the retreat of German forces. When the war is over, Fachmel desperately struggles to return to a normal life--including his daily billiards game--but is unable to do so when he becomes overwhelmed with devastating ...
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White Rose
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Inge Scholl, Arthur R Schultz (Translator), Dorothee Solle (Introduction by)
A unique study of the WW2 culture of Germany.
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Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later
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Johannes Itten
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Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the RAF
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Stefan Aust, Anthea Bell (Translator)
The Baader-Meinhof Group--later known as the Red Army Faction (RAF)--was a violent urban guerilla group which terrorized Germany in the 1970s and '80s, killing 47 people, wounding 93, taking 162 hostages, and robbing 35 banks--all in an attempt to bring revolution to the Federal Republic. Stefan Aust's masterful history of the Group presents the ...
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Bridge at Remagen
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Ken Hechler
This blow-by-blow account tells the true story of the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge that crossed the Rhine--a successful mission that saved thousands of American lives and spearheaded the invasion of Nazi Germany. Reissue.
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Battle of Hurtgen Forest
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Charles Whiting
The U. S. Army regards the Hurtgen Forest as one of the most desperate battles it has ever fought. Flanking the key German city of Aachen, the forest was one of the formidable natural barriers interspersed with German fortifications in the West Wall in September 1944.
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Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult
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Peter Levenda
This comprehensive popular history of the occult background and roots of the Nazi movement shows how the ideas of a vast international network of late 19th- and early 20th century occult groups influenced Nazi ideology, from Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley to the Thule Gesellschaft, the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Order of the Eastern ...
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Funeral in Berlin
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Len Deighton
Len Deighton's third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists. In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West - for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay, ...
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Selling Hitler
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Robert Harris
The con job of the century--the faking of the Hitler "diaries". How could some of the most distinguished historians of the Hitler era, and some of the most aggresssive and street-smart publishers in the business have been taken in by these documents? This lively, witty account conveys a sobering picture of the ease with which those who profess to ...
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Dambusters Raid
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John Sweetman
Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland were breached, and a famous if controversial victory won. John ...
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The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity
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Charles S Maier
Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited ...
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Germany for Dummies
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Donald Olson
From the Bavarian Alps to the Rhine, from Berlin to the Black Forest, Germany is packed with beer gardens, castles, art, culture, and a hopping night-life. Take it all in with this handy guide to your perfect Teutonic adventure: It includes a complete coverage of the big cities and small towns, from Berlin and Munich to the spa town of Baden-Baden ...
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Buddenbrooks
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Mann
This story of a prosperous Hanseatic family and their gradual disintegration is also a portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the 19th century to a modern uncertainty.
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Born Guilty, Children of Nazi Families
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Peter Sichrovsky
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Anselm Kiefer
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Mark Rosenthal
Offers a profile of the German artist, shows examples of his paintings and photographs, and discusses his approach to art.
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Pictures of a Childhood
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Alice Miller
In PICTURES OF CHILDHOOD, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative anxiety which 'somehow permits us to come to grips with the demons of our past and give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.' Having realised in the early seventies a lifelong desire to paint, Dr Miller found an unfamiliar world ...
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The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945
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Gerald Reitlinger
The SSshort for the German Schutzstaffeln was a far-flung organization, of which the Gestapo was only one branch, that served as the tyrannical expression of Nazi bureaucracy, a politics of terror. Germans in high places still use the SS as a standard excuse for the acts of murder, extortion, and genocide that were facts of daily life under the ...
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Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany
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David Warren Sabean
This book offers a substantial reassessment of peasant society and popular culture in early modern Europe. The book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life of the duchy of Wurttemberg in southwest Germany from 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and ...
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The Juniper Tree: And Other Tales from Grimm
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator), Lore Segal (Translator)
This beautifully produced volume includes translations by the poet Randall Jarrell and illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1973.
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From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film
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Anton Kaes
West German film-makers have tried repeatedly over the past half-century to come to terms with Germany's stigmatized history. How can Hitler and the Holocaust, how can the complicity and shame of the average German be narrated and visualized? How can Auschwitz be reconstructed? Anton Kaes argues that a major shift in German attitudes occurred in ...
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Teddy Bears and Steiff Animals
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Margaret Fox Mandel
This volume on teddy bears and Steiff animals picks up where the first one left off. Hundreds of bears and animals are featured in this large 8.5 X 11 book. There are no repeats from the first bear book. 2000 values.
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How It All Began: A Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla
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Bommi Baumann, Wayne Parker (Translator), Hellene Ellenbogen (Translator)
"How It All Began "is the personal testimony of Michael "Bommi" Baumann, a man who, in the late 1960s and early '70s, was a member of the June 2nd Movement, one of the most spectacular urban guerrilla organizations in West Berlin. Of this book, Baumann said: "Others should understand why people take the road of armed struggle, how they come to it, ...
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Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard Von Bingen (Book + CD)
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Jane Bobko (Editor), Of Bingen Hildegard, Barbara Newman (Photographer)
This is the story of the 12th-century nun: a visionary, mystic and author of liturgical songs and prophecies, illustrated by illuminations inspired by her visions, and together with a full-length compact disc of her music.
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