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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 by Richard Reeves Publisher Comments In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II—pilots, navigators, and mechanics—who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945 by Richard J. Evans Publisher Comments An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history. Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern Publisher Comments World-renowned historian Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germanys, and the unified country after 1990. He shows that the tumultuous history of Germany--alternately the strength and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States by Alex Abella Publisher Comments An astonishing account of the Nazi plot to paralyze the American war effort through terrorist actions on U.S. soil.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Dance of the Panther: A Memoir by Ingeborg Glasser Publisher Comments In Dance of the Panther, Ingeborg Glasser takes her readers on an emotional journey through her childhood in Germany at a time of tyranny, war, and genocide. As the daughter of an alcoholic father and fiery mother, who was born Jewish but converted to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Austrians: A Thousand-Year Odyssey by Gor Brooke Shepherd Publisher Comments This is a masterful survey of Austria's controversial place at the heart of European history. From the Reformation through the Napoleonic and Cold Wars to European Union, a superb history of Austria's central role in uniting Western civilization is... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous Publisher Comments 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), the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W Ryback Publisher Comments A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitlers life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking. Hitlers education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern. Simon Winder by Simon Winder Publisher Comments A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining... (read more) List Price $14.75 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles Macdonogh Publisher Comments When Hitler’s government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse Publisher Comments Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitlers empire, the embodiment of his vision of a “world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitlers Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 by Konrad H Jarausch Publisher Comments In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History by Katrin Himmler Publisher Comments Katrin Himmler's cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals - in all its dark complexity - the gulf between the 'normality' of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin by Cioma Schonhaus Publisher Comments In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand by Benjamin Carte Hett Publisher Comments During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 by Amos Elon Publisher Comments In this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons, and activists. In... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) by De Stratigakos Publisher Comments Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their feminine modernity, both culturally and architecturally. Women located their lives and made their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments William von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, and, every so often, a dress. As a teenager during WWI, he chose for his kingdom the exotic and unknown land of Ukraine. But the collapse of his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Grammatica Aegyptiaca: Erste Anleitung Zum Uebersetzen Altgyptischer Literaturwerke by Gustav Seyffarth Publisher Comments This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts... (read more) List Price $26.75 Your price: $18.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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