Germany category: 4580 books
Modern Hungers
Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately intertwined with waging war, and starvation claimed more lives than any other weapon. As Alice Weinreb shows in Modern...
Hausfrau Honeymoon
Love, Language, and Other Misadventures in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
*** Official Selection of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club - Five Diamonds in the Tiara ***
By the age of 40, adventure journalist and world traveler, Beth M. Howard, was convinced that no matter what she set her mind to, she could find a way to do it. Nothing, however, had prepared her for to...
by Ian Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time.
The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. As...
The House by the Lake
One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A Finalist for the Costa Biography Award
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • Commonweal magazine
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother...
Eichmann Before Jerusalem
The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality...
DER FÜHRER
Hitler’s Rise To Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Konrad Heiden, the son of a union organizer, was born in Munich, Germany, on 7th August 1901. While at the University of Munich he led protests against Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). The historian, Richard Overy, has pointed out: "Heiden was a young socialist...
Learn German with Stories: Dino lernt Deutsch Collector’s Edition - Simple Short Stories for Beginners (1-4)
Dino lernt Deutsch, #0
Language: German
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Tired of boring textbooks and apps that don't make sense? Step into the shoes of Dino, explore 4 German cities and learn German—the way it's actually spoken—along the way!
This collector's edition comprises the first four German stories in the Dino lernt Deutsch German learning series for...
The Bastard Brigade
The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb
Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...
by Richard J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization...
The Wages of Destruction
The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered...
The Law of Blood
Thinking and Acting as a Nazi
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis...
Stasiland
Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic.” —Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books ofthe Year”
AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany’s...
The Age of Catastrophe
A History of the West 19141945
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative...
by Julia Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices—even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett—into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right...