Cultural Region/Germany
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The Frankfurt Kitchen: Forty-One Stories of Growing Up in Post-World War II West Germany
$19.95 Add to cartThe author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power, wielding vast influence in the world through its ex
- Author: Laird, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1649529740
- Language: English
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Agricola and Germany
$13.95 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus, Rome’s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953926X
- Language: English
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Rumpelstiltskin
$12.99 Add to cartPaul Galdone’s masterful storytelling brings new life to this familiar high-stakes tale of a mysterious little man who makes a devastating deal with the miller’s daughter. Sold to a king who expects h… [more below]
- Series: Paul Galdone Classics
- Author: Galdone, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0544066928
- Language: English
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Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
$9.99 Add to cartBenno was the neighborhood’s favorite cat.
During the week, he napped in a sunny corner of Mitzi Stein’s dress shop and begged scrapped from Moshe the butcher. But one night in Berlin, the Nazis chan
- Author: Wiviott, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0822599759
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$21.99 Add to cart“A feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (Wall Street Journal)–the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The Habsburgs,… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541644514
- Language: English
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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest myster- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0525509844
- Language: English
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The Emigrants
$16.95 Add to cartThe four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school tea… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #853
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081122614X
- Language: English
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Germany 1945: From War to Peace
$18.99 Add to cart“Fascinating….Bessel does an excellent job of evoking the blasted landscape of a conquered Germany.”
—The New Yorker
“A sober yet powerful account.”
—New York Times Book ReviewAuthoritative and d
- Author: Bessel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0060540370
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought–a riveting nonfiction chronicle published
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062312065
- Language: English
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On the Marble Cliffs
$15.95 Add to cartNow in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an encroaching fascistic force.
Set in a world of its own, Ernst- Author: J?nger, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376253
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition
$18.00 Add to cart" This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced, " (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version…. [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722017
- Language: English
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Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble
$7.99 Add to cartAn exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.
In ‘Waterloo’, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most
- Series: Making History (Paperback)
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2006
- ISBN10: 000719076X
- Language: English
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
$16.99 Add to cartJohann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for mode… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0007156618
- Language: English
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15-Minute German: Learn in Just 12 Weeks
$16.99 Add to cartTeach yourself German in just 12 weeks with this fun-filled language course.
DK’s 15 Minute Language is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn German fast. The 12 themed chapters are bro… [more below]- Series: DK 15-Minute Lanaguge Learning
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0744080800
- Language: English
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
$27.00 Add to cart“Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism.” —Financial Times
An extraordinary mythology has… [more below]- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113208
- Language: English
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Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
$24.95 Add to cartThis most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a t… [more below]
- Author: Lipstadt, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 08 1993
- ISBN10: 0029191610
- Language: English
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine
$7.99 Add to cartHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
Confessions describes Saint Augustine’s conversion to Christianity and is the basis for his reputation as one
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Augustine, Saint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0008480044
- Language: English
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
$11.99 Add to cartIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned geni
- Author: Gaines, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0007153937
- Language: English
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History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
$19.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson.
“A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. ” — Jewish Week
Deborah Lipsta
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lipstadt, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060593776
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
$50.00 Add to cartThe fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edi… [more below]
- Author: Shirer, William L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1451642598
- Language: English
