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Nazi Dictatorship : Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (4TH 00 Edition) by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments This widely-used text on the Nazi regime explores the complex issues historians face when they interpret the Third Reich. Kershaw expertly synthesizes data and evaluates complex historiography looking at the major themes and debates among scholars about... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mein Kampf (43 Edition) by Adolf Hitler Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Racial State : Germany, 1933-1945 (91 Edition) by Michael Burleigh Publisher Comments Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a "class" society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions that underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Magic Lantern : the Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague , With New Afterword (93 Edition) by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - 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 $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kristallnacht 1938 by Alan E. Steinweis Publisher Comments On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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East German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, Reality and Controversy (Studies in Intelligence) by Thomas Wegener (edt) Friis Publisher Comments This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence. The contributors broaden the... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price: $111.75 New - Hardcover
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The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans Publisher Comments From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism: Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern Germany by Douglas T. Mcgetchin Publisher Comments Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within nineteenth-century Germany, this work contextualizes approaches to contact by historically... (read more) List Price $70.75 Your price: $66.25 New - Hardcover
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From Crusade to Hazard: The Denazification of Bremen Germany by Bianka J. Adams Synopsis From Crusade to Hazard: The Denazification of Bremen Germany contributes to a better understanding of one of the most controversial and significant aspects of the U.S. occupation of Germany - the denazification program. It fills a significant scholarly... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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Easier Fatherland: Germany in the Twenty-First Century by Steve Crawshaw Publisher Comments Germany is the most important and powerful country in Europe. And yet it remains strangely little understood - by itself, as much as by the rest of the world. It is in a state of remarkable flux, confronting the demons of the past, whilst also seeking to... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hiroshima by John Hersey Publisher Comments On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen G Fritz Publisher Comments Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers.... I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Michael Meyer Publisher Comments ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, MICHAEL MEYER PROVIDES A RIVETING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE THAT BRILLIANTLY REWRITES OUR CONVENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE COLD WAR CAME TO AN END... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Weimar Republic (93 Edition) by Detlev J.k. Peukert Publisher Comments The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Sanfor Mayer Publisher Comments "Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening."Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review "It is a fascinating story and a deeply moving... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L Shirer Publisher Comments Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour by Andrei Cherny Publisher Comments The Candy Bombers is the true tale of the ill- assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat. By feeding and supplying West Berlin by air for nearly a year, these brave men won the hearts of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Taylor Publisher Comments ON the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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