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Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir
An exceptional memoir by the world-famous, pioneering filmmaker who directed the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema- building an opera house in the middle...
1945: Victory in the West
The first book on the final 100 days of the Second World War in a generation 'Magisterial . . . a fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be...
The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of Alone in Berlin and Stoner - the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany. 'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few...
Conversations with Goethe
A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...
Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended
A gripping history of Germany's 'zero hour', the eight days between Hitler's death and the war's end 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final...
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than...
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870,...
Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the...
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport
The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European...
Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
Within days of the D-Day landings, the Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest...
Anvil of War: German Generalship in Defence on the Eastern Front
'The Anvil of War' details the German strategies and tactics employed by the commanders on the cataclysmic Russian Front in the Second World War. Monographs by two officers who served...
Eastern Front Air War 1941 - 1945
This selection of over 150 photographs provides a visual guide to the desperate air war fought over the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. Most of these black-and-white wartime photographs...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival. THE...
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle
The Sunday Times no.1 bestseller on the incredible true story of WW2's most infamous Nazi prison, and the colourful characters behind its walls Colditz Castle- a forbidding Gothic tower on...
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regime Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of...
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people...
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather, the bestselling, Costa prize-winning author of The Volunteer (over 100k TCM)...
All Quiet on the Western Front: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written, translated by Brian Murdoch. 'A necessary, shattering read' Irish Times In...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to
'Masterly ... will surely be the standard history for many years to come ... This is a warning for the future, as much as a judgement on the past' Richard...
German Romantic Poets
In this unique selection popular giants of the Romantic movement - Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Heine - are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English,...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important...
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
A classic work from the international mega-seller, Antony Beevor, on the terrifying end to the Second World War The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World
The juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years - from the early triumphs of the Blitzkrieg to Hitler's suicide...
All Quiet on the Western Front
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. The most...
Slaughterhouse 5
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Read Kurt...
Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann
One man's fight for revenge against a corrupt justice system. Kleist's influential German novella has been newly translated by the renowned Michael Hofmann. 'I finished it in one sitting. Probably...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe ** Sunday Times Bestseller **...
Two Brothers
A deeply poignant novel set in Berlin between 1920 and 1945 Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only book of its kind on this battle. 'James Holland is a...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the Allies obliterated the German city of Dresden. Bombs weighing over 1,000...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work...
After Midnight
Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace,...
A Most Wanted Man
A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...
Absolute Friends
The story of two friends whose dubious relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present day terrorism is new to Penguin Modern...
Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption
The last book by one of Britain's most prominent public intellectuals is a superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal,...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past What can...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops The Nazis styled themselves as warriors against moral...
Bloodlands: THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe
A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians were murdered during the years 1933-1944 Under Hitler and Stalin the...
The Tin Drum
Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to...
I Will Come Back for You: The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis
'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...
Kaput: The End of the German Miracle
'Compelling' Guardian 'Eloquent and comprehensive' Financial Times 'Excellent' The Telegraph 'Astonishing' The Times 'An eye-opener' Gavin Esler Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success....
The White Circle: A Black Forest Investigation VI
"A fitting and frightening conclusion to a magnificent series" The TimesThe final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close.Louise Boni, Chief Inspector of...
The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
"Deeply moving" - Booktrust "A gripping story of love, courage and triumph over evil" - The Bookseller "Can, and should, be read by an audience of any age." - Jewish...
Images of the Waffen-SS: A Photo Chronicle of Germany's Elite Troops
Mark C. Yerger, responding to requests from readers of his previous books, this new photo album provides material for the model builder, vehicle enthusiast, memorabilia collector and those interested in...