Germany category: 4580 books
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
A Magnificent Faith
Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
A Magnificent Faith explains how and why Lutheranism - a confession that derived its significance from the promulgation of God's Word - became a visually magnificent faith, a faith whose adherents sought to captivate Christians' hearts and minds through seeing as well as through hearing. Although...
Bridge Builder
An Insider’s Perspective of Over 60 Years in Post-War Reconstruction, International Diplomacy, and German-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German-American friendship organization, which he now serves as honorary chairman. In his autobiography,...
All Power to the Councils!
A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 19181919
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Gabriel Kuhn’s excellent volume illuminates a profound global revolutionary moment, in which brilliant ideas and debates lit the sky.” -Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of all Nations and The Slave Ship This remarkable collection, skillfully edited by Gabriel Kuhn, brings to life that...
by Fritz Stern
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award
Nominated for the National Book Award
“A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The...
by Hans Bernd Gisevius
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“When on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly placed inside the Wolf’s Lair (Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia) by the German Anti-Nazi Resistance—exploded without killing the Führer, the subsequent coup d’état against the Third Reich collapsed. Most of the conspirators were summarily shot...
by J. K. Zawodny
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
MORE THAN 15,000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces...
What Hitler Knew
The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005
What Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions from the Nazi seizure of power up to the hours before the outbreak of World War II. Zachary Shore argues...
by Colin Storer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise...
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Weimar Republic provides a comprehensive introduction to Germany in the aftermath of the First World War. Exploring themes including the formation of the Republic, the impact of the Treaty of Versailles and the Republic’s problems and achievements, it is an invaluable study guide.
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by Dorothy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Listen, Hans by Dorothy Thompson (72,000 words)
In the spring of 1942 Dorothy Thompson began broadcasting to Germany via shortwave radio in an anti-Nazi propaganda campaign commissioned by CBS. There was no central coordination of propaganda during that first year of America’s involvement...
Memories of a Veterinarian
From my Innocent Youth in Germany to Life on the Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The life of Wolfgang von Staden has been anything but dull. From the Nazis to the Soviets, from a starving farm hand to a respected veterinarian, his story follows some of the most dramatic times of the twentieth century through the eyes of an earnest, inquisitive, and compassionate young man. Each tale...
German Secret Weapons of World War II
The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons, and New Technology of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A comprehensive, highly detailed study of the V-weapons, as well as the rest of Nazi Germany’s secret weapon program” (Michael D. Hull, HistoryNet**).**
The general public may be familiar with the V-1 and V-2 missiles that played a part in bombing London in 1944, but, truth be told,...
by Thomas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This is the story of the largest and statistically most successful tank destroyer of World War II. The Ferdinand was a true behemoth, and although only 91 examples were built, they took a savage toll of Soviet armour in the Battle of Kursk and subsequent operations on the Eastern Front. This study...