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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the pivot point of the twentieth century, one man's decisions would alter the course of history forever — Threshold of War by Waldo Heinrichs...

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...

Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...

Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...

Author: Henry David Thoreau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord...

Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...

'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....

Author: Henry David Thoreau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Henry David ThoreauÕs account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in MassachusettsÑpart social experiment, part...

Author: Robert Edwin HerzsteinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Paragon House, New York, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor wear on spine and corners. Waldheim:...

A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm...

Author: Hanif Kureishi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the gilded halls of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna emerges one of the most breathtaking tributes to the art of botanical...

Author: Volker HelasBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Benedikt Taschen, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. **text in German, English, and French**Villenarchitektur /...

Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War...

In "The Ring And The Wolf", Gottfried Wagner chronicles his family's connection with National Socialism, from his great-grandfather's anti-Semitic pamphlets to his father's, uncle's and grandparent's close relationship with Adolf...

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Author: H. H. ParsBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerPictures in Peril is a first edition book published in 1957, featuring...

Author: Donald E. Graves Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Blood and Steel 3, The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945 is an extensive and colourful...

Author: Rebecca Donner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Berlin and witnessed the...

In picturesque text clouds, spatial drawings, and sound installations, Brigitte Waldach explores surprising connections from our cultural and contemporary history. In her impressive drawings she deals with Germany's past, but...

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...

Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but not published until now) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodCondition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY** Boards: good with minor marks; binding remains tight. DJ: split, spine panel missing; chipped and worn with small missing pieces. From...

Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of democracy's death, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich chronicles the dramatic...

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...

This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran 'A rewarding and wonderfully...

What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne...

Author: Howard Michael Gould Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Blackmail, sexual harassment, murder . . . and a missing dog: eccentric, eco-obsessed LA private eye Charlie Waldo is on...

'A truly great book ... an utterly gripping thriller' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its...

This semi-autobiographical classic, written by the beloved Judith Kerr, tells the story of a Jewish family escaping Germany in the days before the Second World War Suppose your country began...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, fading to edges and spine; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact....

A trove of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs - secretly recorded by the Allies - reveals the extent of their brutality and changes our understanding of the mind-set...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

Ever tried to learn German and found it too hard? Bestselling language coach Paul Noble has a quick and easy way to get you back on track with his unique...

Written with Fallada's distinctive power and vividness, Nightmare in Berlin captures the demoralised and desperate atmosphere of post-war Germany in a way that has never been matched or surpassed. Available...

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The...

The shocking true story of the German monarchy's collaboration with the Nazis - already a bestseller in Germany, now in English for the first time The disappearance of the Hohenzollern...