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The Candy Bombers
by Andrei Cherny  Publisher Comments The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, Andrei Cherny tells a remarkable...
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Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
by Katherine Pratt Ewing Publisher Comments The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which...
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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...
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The Germans :who are they now?
by Alan Watson Publisher Comments A lucid exploration of the development of Germany and the key role it will play in the Europe of the future....
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Woman in Berlin : Eight Weeks in the Conquered City : a Diary (05 Edition)
by Philip Boehm Publisher Comments 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. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject....
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After the Reich: The Brutal History of Allied Occupation
by Giles Macdonogh Publisher Comments When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, the Allied powers converged on Germany and divided it into four zones of occupation. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors....
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Germans on Drugs: The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg (Social History, Popular Culture, & Politics in Germany)
by Robert Stephens Publisher Comments Germans on Drugs is both a groundbreaking study of the creation of youth drug culture in Hamburg during the 1960s and 1970s and an innovative exploration of the paradoxes of modernization. The very processes that allowed West Germany to flourish after...
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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...
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Tamed Power: Germany in Europe
by Peter J Katzenstein Publisher Comments International relations expert Peter J. Katzenstein contends that a multilateral institutionalization of power is the most distinctive aspect of the relationship between Europe and Germany. This book explores that institutionalization of power, along...
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Unchained Eagle: Germany After the Wall
by Tom Heneghan Book News Annotation Heneghan took his post as Reuters Chief Correspondent for Germany in 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall came down. Here he reports on his travels through the new Germany over the next eight years, including trips abroad with Helmut Kohl and...
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Ghost Strasse: Germany's East Trapped Between Past and Present
by Simon Burnett Publisher Comments German unification was expected to be a triumph of the human spirit, of political resourcefulness, and of economic power. Instead, the process that began in late 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down, has turned into an unending chronicle of division...
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Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity
by Charles S Maier About the Author Charles S. Maieris the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at <>Harvard University, and the author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany....
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
by Frederick Taylor Publisher Comments Gripping and authoritative, Taylors definitive work is the first comprehensive account of the most enduring symbol of the Cold War. 16-page b&w photo insert....
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Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
by Jeffrey Herf Publisher Comments What has Germany made of its Nazi past? A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from...
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Cold War Politics in Postwar Germany
by David F Patton Publisher Comments During the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany was buffeted by the actions and decisions of the superpowers, forced to redefine itself anew with each development in global relations. David F. Patton develops the links between Cold War international...
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Quest: Searching for Germany's Nazi Past
by Ib Melchior Publisher Comments A young modern-day German's investigation into the years of the Third Reich and the problems facing a reunited Germany....
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Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes After Fascism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
by Richard Langston Publisher Comments Nazi Germany’s book burnings, its campaign against “degenerate art,” and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant garde to the brink of extinction. How the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the...
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Recasting Race After World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany
by Timothy Schroer Publisher Comments Exploring the renegotiation of race by Germans and African-American GIs in post-World War II Germany, this study illuminates the ways in which occupied Germany was a crucible in which to recast the meaning of race in a post-Holocaust world....
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Jewish Claims Against East Germany: Moral Obligations and Pragmatic Policy
by Angelika Timm Synopsis This is the first comprehensive history of Jewish negotiations with East Germany regarding restitution and reparations for Nazi war crimes. Angelika Timm analyzes the politics of old and new anti-semitism and the context in which they grew under the...
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The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity
by Charles S Maier Publisher Comments Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy...
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