Germany category: 4580 books
by John Weal
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
This volume tells the story of the daylight air battles over Germany through the eyes of the Bf 109 aces involved. It traces the development of the aerial defence of the Reich from its small beginnings to arguably the most savage and costliest campaign in the history of aerial warfare. The Luftwaffe...
by J. Ross Browne
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
The European reporting of J Ross Browne details Browne's time in Europe while the Civil War was raging in the United States. Brown visits Iceland, Norway, Poland, Moscow and Germany. His entertaining and good humored style is indicative of the times and the attitudes of those times. In “A Californian...
Flakhelfer to Grenadier
Memoir of a Boy Soldier, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
On January 7 1943, the German Government, in order to free adult soldiers for frontline duty, ordered that all male students of secondary schools born in 1926 and 1927 be drafted into anti-air craft service in the homeland. Students were to arrive in batteries on February 18 1943.
After serving...
Summary of In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Summary of In the Garden of Beasts: by Erik Larson | Includes Analysis Preview: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson explores several crucial years in Berlin through the eyes of the US ambassador and...
Between State and Church
Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland Lithuania Germany Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to...
In Europe's Name
Germany and the Divided Continent
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe tells the story of German reunification. Garton Ash has produced a panoramic, dramatic, and definitive account of events that are continuing to transform the map of Europe.
A Private Treason
A German Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A Private Treason is the memoir of a courageous German woman who, as a girl of nineteen from an upper-middle-class Gentile family, rejected Nazism completely and gave up her language and her country forever. Branded a “traitor,” she fled from the blitzkrieg to Vienna, the Dalmation islands, Paris,...
'I'll be home by christmas' - An analysis of the first year of the Great War
An analysis of the first year of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2008
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History Europe - Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: A, , course: American History, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The World War of 1914-18 - The Great War, as contemporaries called it, was the first man-made catastrophe...
A Church Undone
Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. Almost all Germans were Christians, and almost all Christians in Germany stood by, becoming intentionally or unintentionally complicit in Nazi policies and practices.
In...
German Boy
A Refugee’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir, the voice of innocence is heard.
“This is great stuff,” exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose. “I love this book.”
In this gripping account, a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives...
by Petra Hammesfahr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
“...One shares Susanne's belief that she must try to carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the reader, peering over Susanne's shoulder at all the traps, turning the pages of this remarkable book.”—The Independent (UK)
Praise for Petra Hammesfahr's The Sinner:
“The...
German : Biography of a Language
Biography of a Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant...
Faust's Gold
Inside The East German Doping Machine
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
For nearly twenty-five years, East Germany's corrupt sports organization dominated international athletics. While the German Democratic Republic's secret "State Plan" was in effect, more than ten thousand unsuspecting young athletes-- some as young as twelve years old-- were given massive...
The Castles of the Rhine
Recreating the Middle Ages in Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major political, social and intellectual...