Cultural Region/Germany
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries — from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dy… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644506
- Language: English
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front
$54.98 Add to cartIn the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0700611223
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097421
- Language: English
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Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps of Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923
$25.99 Add to cartThe Free Corps Movement had its origins in the pre-war youth movement and on the battlefields of the war. The returning soldiers, embittered by defeat, believing themselves betrayed by a cowardly gove
- Author: Waite, Robert G. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0393001814
- Language: English
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Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
$36.00 Add to cartMemory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan’s first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet.
Cel- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603235
- Language: English
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Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history–Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther–w
- Author: Massing, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143437
- Language: English
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Learn Portuguese: A Simple Guide to Learning Portuguese for Beginners, Including Grammar, Short Stories and Popular Phrases
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to learn Portuguese in less time, then keep reading…
Two manuscripts in one book:
- Portuguese: How to Learn Portuguese Fast, Including Grammar, Short Stories, and Useful Phrases
- Portugue
- Author: Learning, Daily Language
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480760
- Language: English
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The Cellist of Dachau
$18.95 Add to cart“Music transcends war trauma in this extraordinary novel that opens in 1938 Vienna when 19-year-old Jewish cellist Otto Shalmik is arrested with his father and interred at Dachau concentration camp. T
- Author: Goodman, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1909954888
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$39.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
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Let Me Go
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Schneider, Helga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035177
- Language: English
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cart“Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece th
- Author: Friedlander, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0060930489
- Language: English
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A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge
$24.99 Add to cartOn December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieveing what had been considered impos
- Author: MacDonald, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 19 1997
- ISBN10: 0688151574
- Language: English
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Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
$27.00 Read moreA riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe–from the author of Hitler: Ascent
“Skillfully conceived and u- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1101872063
- Language: English
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The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
$34.95 Add to cartThe Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces’ innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feeling
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Harrisville, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501760041
- Language: English
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The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 – November 9, 1989
$21.99 Add to cart“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful to
- Author: Taylor, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062985884
- Language: English
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$19.99 Add to cartA “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United S… [more below]
- Author: MacGregor, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982100044
- Language: English
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Change Your Life
$19.95 Add to cart“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip Pullman
A new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work –- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1782278583
- Language: English
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The Essence of Christianity
$13.99 Add to cartIn this, one of the most influential works of the post-Hegelian era, Feuerbach captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead and the rational and material … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879755598
- Language: English
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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men
$19.99 Add to cartRead the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this “captivating book rooted in first-rate research” (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America becam… [more below]
- Author: Lichtblau, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0544577884
- Language: English
