Germany category: 4580 books
Hitlerland
American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
“Hitlerland is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Reading about the Nazis is not supposed to be fun, but Nagorski manages to make it so. Readers new to this story will find it fascinating” (The Washington Post).
Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes...
by Carol Sicherman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
A richly detailed portrait not only of a man struggling to lead an ethical life but of the disturbed times in which he lived.Drawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her own memories, the author traces Marks's...
The Migrants Part I
My new life in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Most Migrants are trying to change their often-oppressed past lives and many manage to do so. Parting from loved ones is never easy, but leave we all did just the same, forging ahead, takings risks, facing and conquering hardships often against innumerable odds, paving the way for uor offspring to...
Berlin 1936
Sixteen Days in August
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympic Games, describing events in the German capital through the eyes of a select cast of characters: Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, sportsmen and journalists, writers and socialites, nightclub owners and jazz musicians.
While events...
by Philip Metcalfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
“Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Metcalfe distills the personalities, viewpoints, and day-to-day reactions of five alert and often directly involved witnesses to Hitler’s consolidation of power. They are: U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, and his high-spirited daughter, Martha; Bella...
by Stan Lauryssens
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The man who created the concept of the Third Reich, had a great influence upon Hitler, and was horrified at what he unleashed This remarkable biography of the key figure in the formation of the political ideals behind the Third Reich charts the progress of a political activist as his theories became...
by Walter Kempowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before.
Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany through more than 1,000 extracts from letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts, written by civilians and soldiers alike. Together, they present...
After the Berlin Wall
Putting Two Germanys Back Together Again
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Documenting an incredible unification in the history of Europe, this account examines the merging of East and West Germany following the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Describing how a totalitarian, atheist, and communist system was married with a democratic, Christian, and capitalist one,...
HENRY
A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This incredible true story is both a witness to the Holocaust through Polish eyes and the story of how Henry Zguda, a Polish (Catholic) competitive swimmer, survives Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps by his wits, humor, luck, and friends. At times humorous, always gut-honest,...
Home Fires Burning
Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace--particularly poorer women--on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.
As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to...
The Lives of Hans Luther, 1879 - 1962
German Chancellor, Reichsbank President, and Hitler's Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
For the first time in any language, a book examines the life of Hans Luther, the German statesman whose career began at the tail end of the Second Empire and ended in the postwar years. Luther had a front-row seat for World War I, the Revolution of 1918, the Great Inflation, the Great Depression,...
by Tuvia Tenenbom
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
An American Jew wonders: Who are the Germans? Can we generalize and identify a specifically German character? Tuvia Tenenbom, an American playwright and journalist and a contributor to the German newspaper Die Zeit, tries to find out. He embarks on an extended tour of Germany, with a thoroughness that...
Hitler's First Victims
The Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.
Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic....
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, December 15th 2010, before the E.U. summit on the eurozone debt crisis. These days, its impossible to read a newspaper or watch the news without seeing...