Cultural Region/Germany
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The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 – November 9, 1989
$21.99 Add to cart“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful to
- Author: Taylor, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062985884
- Language: English
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$19.99 Add to cartA “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United S… [more below]
- Author: MacGregor, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982100044
- Language: English
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Change Your Life
$19.95 Add to cart“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip Pullman
A new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work –- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1782278583
- Language: English
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The Essence of Christianity
$13.99 Add to cartIn this, one of the most influential works of the post-Hegelian era, Feuerbach captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead and the rational and material … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879755598
- Language: English
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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men
$19.99 Add to cartRead the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this “captivating book rooted in first-rate research” (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America becam… [more below]
- Author: Lichtblau, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0544577884
- Language: English
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Complete German Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to Read, Write, Speak and Understand a New Language
$39.99 Add to cartDo you want to develop a solid understanding of German and communicate confidently with others?
Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and re… [more below]- Series: Teach Yourself Language
- Author: Schenke, Heiner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1444177397
- Language: English
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Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition
$17.00 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0307473732
- Language: English
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Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck
$9.99 Add to cartA stunning look at World War II from the other side…
From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel’s 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland,- Series: World War II Libary
- Author: Luck, Hans Von
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0440208025
- Language: English
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A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
$16.99 Add to cartNow an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt’s executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as … [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1629144800
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
$29.99 Add to cart“A masterly work of military and judicial history.” —New York Times. Telford Taylor’s book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Telford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1620877880
- Language: English
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish … [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0525431837
- Language: English
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Goethe’s Faust
$16.00 Add to cartThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm a… [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031149
- Language: English
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Scramble for Africa…
$24.99 Add to cartWhite Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912- Author: Pakenham, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0380719991
- Language: English
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The Ring of the Nibelung
$30.00 Add to cartA superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner’s Ring cycle
The scale and grandeur of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no success- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Wagner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0241305853
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$14.95 Add to carthus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537097
- Language: English
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The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945
$26.00 Add to cartAn absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power.
“This is history in the- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116711
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Pocket Munich
$13.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Pocket Munich is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life – neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Witness luxury at Residenz, sample beer and celebrate at Oktoberfest and exp
- Series: Pocket Guide
- Author: Di Duca, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1788680979
- Language: English
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For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People… [more below]
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1641711310
- Language: English
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Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
$40.99 Add to cartPeter Caddick-Adams’s account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called th… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0190601892
- Language: English
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Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
$23.95 Add to cart“This book examines the history of Black musicians in Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”–
- Author: Thurman, Kira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501770187
- Language: English
