Cultural Region/Germany
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
$13.99 Add to cartJune 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
- Series: Making History
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0060762152
- Language: English
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Reluctant Warrior: Former German POW Finds Peace in Texas
$22.95 Add to cartHeino Erichsen invited the reader to walk with him as he looks back upon his childhood in Nazi Germany, his surrender as an 18-year-old private with the German Afrika Korps, his survival in POW camps … [more below]
- Author: Erichsen, Heino R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685146
- Language: English
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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Clara Schumann (Revised)
$25.95 Add to cartThis absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, t
- Author: Reich, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0801486378
- Language: English
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Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
$49.92 Add to cartIn a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked
- Author: Hull, Isabel V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472938
- Language: English
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$27.95 Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the ric- Series: Princeton Classics #43
- Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191344
- Language: English
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The Gathering Storm
$25.00 Add to cartThe first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II.
Told from the unique viewpoint of t… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0001
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541055X
- Language: English
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Selected Poems and Fragments: Dual-Language Edition
$20.00 Read moreFriedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: H?lderlin, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140424164
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
$19.99 Add to cartThe word “German” was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of Ge
- Author: Ozment, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0060934832
- Language: English
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Germania: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Region in Europe Where Germanic Tribes Dominated and How It Transformed into G
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Germania, then keep reading…
Germany is a relatively young nation-state. United in 1871, it’s even younger than the United States. However, the terr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637161352
- Language: English
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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
$19.99 Add to cart“Evocative. . . . Epic. . . . Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and charismatic figures, A Demon-Haunted Land not only offers a brilliant rethinking of postwar German history, but also asks us to see t
- Author: Black, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250813859
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Berlin
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: When the Circus Came to Town: The Resurrection of Potsdamer Platz
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1787702820
- Language: English
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Mengele: The Complete Story
$18.95 Add to cartBased on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-19… [more below]
- Author: Posner, Gerald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0815410069
- Language: English
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Agent Garbo
$15.95 Add to cartThe little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double age… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0544035011
- Language: English
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Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
$21.99 Add to cartThe classic biography of Hitler that remains, years after its publication, one of the most authoritative and readable accounts of his life. Here in an abridged edition.
- Author: Bullock, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0060920203
- Language: English
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
$24.95 Add to cartPresenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Descri… [more below]
- Author: Melanson, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 531
- Publish Date: January 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0977795381
- Language: English
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The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust
$19.95 Add to cartThe Last Lullaby is the culmination of Araon Kramer’s fifty-year devotion to translating the poetry of the Holocaust. The full horror of the genocide and the sublime of those who resisted are given vo
- Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
- Author: Kramer, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 081560579X
- Language: English
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
$25.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt’s and Harry Truman’s private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the… [more below]
- Author: Beschloss, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244540
- Language: English
