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Germania: in Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History (10 Edition) by Simon Winder Publisher Comments Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Nazi Movement by Theodore Abel Publisher Comments This book identifies the main factors by which the Nazi movement rose to power and measures their relative importance. It discusses Hitler's leadership, the strategy of party tacticians, and the favorable circumstances of popular economic and social... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.07 New - Trade Paper
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1938: Hitler's Gamble by Giles Macdonogh Publisher Comments The Third Reich came of age in 1938. Hitler began the year as the leader of a right-wing coalition and ended it as the sole master of a belligerent nation. Until 1938 Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem for Germany... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.38 New - Trade Paper
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Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives (Studies in Central European Histories) by Lynne Tatlock Book News Annotation Editor Tatlock (humanities, Washington U., St. Louis), who has published widely on German literature and culture, had the task of organizing an international conference dedicated to the study of early modern Germany. The 16 essays selected for... (read more) List Price $194.25 Your price: $122.61 New - Hardcover
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The Turbulent World of Franz Goll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century by Peter Fritzsche Publisher Comments Franz Göll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.06 New - Hardcover
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The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700; V.10: 1671-1682. by John Roger Paas Synopsis The decades following the Thirty Years' War were a time of almost continual military conflict in Europe, and the 1670s were especially turbulent. In the East, the Austrian Habsburgs faced a serious rebellion in Hungary, while in the West Louis XIV... (read more) List Price $1197.00 Your price: $801.99 New - Hardcover
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The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family by Jonathan Carr Synopsis A family saga as riveting as any opera, and a matchless mirror of Germanys rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things—composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite—and his descendants have... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bells in Their Silence by Michael Gorra Publisher Comments Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $19.48 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture by Alon Confino Publisher Comments In taking memory "out of the museum" and "beyond the monument", "The Work of Memory" investigates the ways memory forms social relations and is integral to the construction of identities, communities, and policies. Profound and provocative, "The Work of... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pietism & the Making of 18th-Century Prussia by Richard L Gawthrop Publisher Comments The first work to describe the relationship between Pietism and the rise of the Prussian state.... (read more) List Price $166.50 Your price: $50.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People by Steven Ozment Publisher Comments The 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 German history have faded beneath the long shadow... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler the Von Moltke Family's Impact on German History by Otto Friedrich Publisher Comments A member of the von Moltke family has played a crucial role in every major crisis of German history -- from the Franco-Prussian War to World Wars I and II. In 1871, Field Marshal von Moltke made Germany a major power in Europe when he and his army... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We All Giggled: A Bourgeois Family Memoir (Life Writing) by Thomas O Hueglin Publisher Comments We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author's parents met and married in 1945. The Huglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wachendorff s had survived the Nazi years despite... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $20.07 New - Trade Paper
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The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections, Germany, 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny Publisher Comments In "The Healing Wound" Sereny presents a vital historical account of Germany in the 20th century, exploring the guilt which is in many ways the legacy of Nazism. She argues that despite the achievements of Germany since 1945, the awareness of the horrors... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Representing East Germany Since Unification: From Colonization to Nostalgia by Paul Cooke Publisher Comments When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, it is the realm of culture that most clearly demonstrates the continued divisions between east and west.... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $39.98 New - Hardcover
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On the Natural History of Destruction: With Essays on Alfred Andersch, Jean Amery, and Peter Weiss by W.G. Sebald Publisher Comments W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001. On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald’s harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Opa Nobody by Sonya Huber Publisher Comments It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A History of Germany, 1815-1990 by William Carr Publisher Comments The formidable economic power and political influence the new Germany is likely to exert in Europe make more desirable than ever an understanding of its past. The latest edition of Carr's classic text and been thoroughly revised and includes a ... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel Publisher Comments 1945 was the most pivotal year in Germany's modern history. As World War II drew to a devastating and violent close, the German people were confronted simultaneously with making sense of the horrors just passed and finding the strength and hope to move... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945 by Peter Paret Publisher Comments In German Encounters with Modernism, Peter Paret traces the reception of modern art, from the 1840s through the Nazi era, through the lens of social and political developments in Germany. Addressing broad cultural topics, such as the early history of... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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