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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second World War, yet... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning Publisher Comments The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg Publisher Comments This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Steve Wick Publisher Comments Published to widespread media attention, The Long Night follows the tremendous journey of legendary American journalist William L. Shirer. During the 1930s, Shirer brought the events in Europe to the English speaking world through his broadcasts on... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse Publisher Comments In Berlin at War, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse provides a magnificent and detailed portrait of everyday life at the epicenter of the Third Reich. Berlin was the stage upon which the rise and fall of the Third Reich was most visibly played out. It... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer Publisher Comments Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Berlin Embassy by William Russell Publisher Comments First published in 1941 to considerable acclaim, Berlin Embassy is the classic account of the last days of peace in Europe, and has been out-of-print for almost fifty years. William Russell was a young American diplomat working at the US Embassy, in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander Publisher Comments The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire by Sidney Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasures they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. In andlt;Iandgt;Hitler's Holy Relics, andlt;/Iandgt... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 babies. Some were... (read more) List Price $20.99 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 Europe... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A Johnson Publisher Comments The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone... (read more) List Price $19.99 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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Herr Hempel At the German Legation in Dublin 1937-1945 by John Duggan Synopsis This book uniquely focuses on Dr Edward Hempel, German Minister in Dublin from 1937 to 1945, covering the period of the Second World War known in Ireland as 'the Emergency'. It reveals the difficulties experienced by a career diplomat like Hempel of the... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $18.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe Publisher Comments In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration by Mark Roseman Publisher Comments On January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, a conference of Nazi officers produced a paper known as the Wannsee Protocol, which laid the groundwork for a final solution to the Jewish Question. This Protocol has always... (read more) List Price $16.00 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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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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The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials by Christiane Kohl Publisher Comments Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Austro Hungarian, The: Dual Monarchy: History Maps Series by Diarmuid Jeffreys Synopsis A detailed history of the Austro Hungarian Empire and the role it played in world history... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Map
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