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Let Me Go
by Helga Schneider

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Lonely Planet Berlin (Lonely Planet Berlin)
by Andrea Schulte-peevers

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So you think you know Berlin? A grand old dame with a chequered past. A vibrant youthful city with cutting-edge architecture. Germany's political heart and party capital. Want to take another look? Let us guide you through this dynamic city and show you... (read more)
 
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Modern Germany

Woman in Berlin : Eight Weeks in the Conquered City : a Diary (05 Edition)
by Philip Boehm

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice   For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle),... (read more)
 
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The New Berlin
by Karen E. Till

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The New Berlin reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and "remembered futures," a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German. Karen Till skillfully moves... (read more)
 
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Austria

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
by Maria Augusta Trapp

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With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family... (read more)
 
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Early Germany

Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.)
by James R. Gaines

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Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a... (read more)
 
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General

Five Germanys I Have Known (07 Edition)
by Stern

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The “German question” haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the... (read more)
 
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Weimar Republic

Weimar Germany: Promise & Tragedy
by Eric D. Weitz

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Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's new book reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a... (read more)
 
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Nuremberg Trials

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
by Christopher Dodd

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For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance... (read more)
 
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Revisionism

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
by Deborah E Lipstadt

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In this first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadt shows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence, this irrational idea has not only continued to gain adherents but has become an... (read more)
 
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Nazi Germany

Mein Kampf (43 Edition)
by Adolf Hitler

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'In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were... (read more)
 
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by Daniel Goldhagen

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This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's... (read more)
 
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Frommer's Germany's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Frommer's Germany's Best-Loved Driving Tours)
by Adi Kraus

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Everything You Need to See the Best of Germany by Car Let Frommer's Take You To: The magnificent Gothic churches, ancient castles, and bucolic vineyards of the Rhine Valley Leipzig--the one-time home of Bach, Friedrich von Schiller, Mendelssohn, and... (read more)
 
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Berlin Encounter (Lonely Planet Berlin Encounter)
by Andrea Schulte-peevers

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What Will Your Berlin Encounter Be? ...picnicking on lip-smaking Currywurst in the splendour of the palace gardens ...feasting your eyes on artwork from Rembrandts to cutting-edge exhibits ...touching history at the Berlin Wall, then delving... (read more)
 
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