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Operation Drumbeat: Germany's First U-boat Attack Against the American
The dramatic national bestseller and remarkably exciting account of Germany's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942."An absolutely...
City Under Siege: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949
At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany with the exception of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. In June 1948,...
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very...
Finding Clara: a page-turning epic set in the aftermath of World War
A haunting debut full of moral ambiguity for fans of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and THE POSTMISTRESS _____________________________________________ 'FINDING CLARA is the kind of novel we need now more than...
Wagner
Whilst no one would dispute Richard Wagner's ranking amongst the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than any other composer's....
Rosa Luxemburg: A Life
A biography of Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder of the first Polish Narxist worker's party. A dynamic public figure, she was a powerful revolutionary, and a renowned theorist and speaker. This is...
Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let
The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef...
Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany
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From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the most vulnerable In the early 1920s amidst the...
Einstein's German World
The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the 20th century "could have been Germany's century". In 1900, the country was continental Europe's leading power, its material strength and...
Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich
Munich was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultural shrine of the Third Reich. In exploring the question of why Nazism flourished in the 'Athens of the Isar',...
Stolen Treasure: The Hunt for the World's Lost Masterpieces
This book by two Russian art historians sets out to reveal how they did this and what happened to these works of art. With the end of the Soviet Union,...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to...
Collecting Colditz and Its Secrets: A Unique Pictorial Record of Life
Forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within the 'Sonderlager' of Colditz castle, the famous prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War...
The Berlin Airlift
Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the commencement of the Berlin airlift, this book describes how, from June 1948 to midsummer 1949, Berlin was blockaded by the Russians and...
Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s...
Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and
Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the...
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi
'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival. The story of women's resistance during World War II needs to be told and The Nine accomplishes this in spades.'...
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany
Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching...
Building for Battle: Hitler's D-Day Defences
Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, was mounted in the early hours of 6th June, 1944. It...
Experimental Units of Hitler's Condor Legion
At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was...
Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany,
** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'W ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars. ' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph ' Exuberant...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home...
Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
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The book titled Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945 by the author Anton Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg,
"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest: Untold Story of a Disastrous Campaign
Thirty thousand American GI's were killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army - a battle that has been ignored for more than 40 years....
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn...
Europa, Europa
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...
The Berlin Blockade
From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...
Hitler's Banker
A biography of Hjalmar Schacht, Chief Architect of the Nazi economy, whose rampant inflation financed the creation of the Europe's war machine in the devastated Weimar Republic. His meteoric success...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
Norway, 1940
The author of this examination of the Norway campaign of 1940 contends that the courage and steadfastness of the British forces contrasted with what he regards as the cowardice and...
Spitfire into Battle
The book titled Spitfire into Battle by the author W.G.G.Duncan Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Bomber Command, 1939-45: Reaping the Whirlwind
From 1940 to 1945 RAF Bomber Command attacked the industrial heartland of Germany. Daylight attacks were impossible in the face of German interceptors, so RAF aircrew had to learn to...
Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Fateful Hours tells one of the greatest dramas in world history: the failure of Germany's first democracy, culminating in the horrific rise of the Third Reich. But this tragedy was...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt
Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This...
The File: A Personal History
In 1991, after the Wall came down and the archives of Eastern Europe opened up, Timothy Garton Ash walked into the building that housed the files of the Stasi, the...
Kommando: German Special Forces Of World War 2
The Germans pursued their objectives in whatever manner served them best. Undercover and other special operations, conceived and executed with ruthless thoroughness, won them some stunning acheivements against all the...
Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War
A Times Book of the Year 'A superb work of history' JAMES HOLLAND 'A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history' DAN SNOW A landmark history of...
The German Century
For the best part of the 20th century, Germany has either united the world in anger or driven it apart. Its late appearance on the European scene in 1871 might...
Berlin Shuffle
Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a...
Munich Marco Polo Pocket Travel Guide 2018 - with pull out map
Marco Polo Pocket Guide Munich: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips. Explore Munich with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the city's...
No Way Back
As war between Prussia and Denmark brews over the territory of Schleswig-Holstein, a German nobleman is called to serve as a gentleman-in-waiting at the Danish court. Count Holk's life so...
On Tangled Paths
Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army's most glittering regiments. But whatever their differences of class and education, their...
Effi Briest
Effi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Innstetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia....
The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg
A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war...