Cultural Region/Germany
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Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
$23.00 Add to cartSoon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that hel
- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0743235452
- Language: English
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Jewish Book Award – New York Times Bestseller
“A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it p
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063112361
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a cou
The award-winning translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel of psychological realism.- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250788455
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$34.00 Add to cartNow a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney
The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany–from the author of Facing the Mountain. For rea- Author: Brown, Daniel James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04, 2013
- ISBN10: 067002581X
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$9.99 Add to cartThe masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time–with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
“[Erich Maria Remar- Series: All Quiet on the Western Front #1
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12, 1987
- ISBN10: 0449213943
- Language: English
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The Thirty Years War
$24.95 Add to cartEurope in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg–as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of th
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Wedgwood, C. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: June 30, 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171462
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science
$12.99 Add to cartIn this beautiful nonfiction biography, a Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, the Newbery Honor-winning author Joyce Sidman introduces readers to one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flout
- Author: Sidman, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667933
- Language: English
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Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
$19.00 Read moreFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Ger… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 059318744X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$14.00 Add to cartRainer Maria Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet.
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0141192321
- Language: English
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
$25.00 Read moreTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”–CNN – “A remarkable story…worth retelling and celebrating.”–USA Today – “Oh, it’s a good one!”–Fox News
A “beautiful story of a brotherhood betwe- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0425255735
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney
The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany–from the author of Facing the Mountain. For rea- Author: Brown, Daniel James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125478
- Language: English
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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
$19.99 Add to cartThe “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful–and elusive–woman in t… [more below]
- Author: Marton, Kati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1501192639
- Language: English
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Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hilter’s Most Brilliant General
$26.99 Add to cartOriginally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany’s top WWII gene… [more below]
- Series: Zenith Military Classics
- Author: Manstein, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 22 2004
- ISBN10: 0760320543
- Language: English
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Masochism
$27.95 Add to cartIn his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. D
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299558
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Best of Germany: With Salzburg
$24.99 Add to cartHit Germany’s can’t-miss art, sights, and bites in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of Germany! Inside you’ll find:
- Strategic advice from Rick Steves on what’s worth your time and money
- Short i
- Series: Rick Steves Travel Guide
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1641714050
- Language: English
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Escape from Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartIf humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of
- Author: Fromm, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0805031499
- Language: English
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Making Bombs for Hitler
$8.99 Add to cartFor readers who were enthralled by Alan Gratz’s Prisoner B-3087 comes a gripping novel about a lesser-known part of WWII.
Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken… [more below]
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1338312839
- Language: English
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The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear
$25.00 Add to cartThe 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear is a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated by author … [more below]
- Author: Moers, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1585678449
- Language: English
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Demian
$15.99 Add to cart“Hesse is a writer whose peculiar vision is worth inspecting. His world is shadowy and close to areas of the heart that will probably never see light. But his vision is a rare one, as commendable for
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 08, 2009
- ISBN10: 0060931914
- Language: English
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Go, Went, Gone
$16.95 Add to cartGo, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). The novel tells the
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26, 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225941
- Language: English
