Cultural Region/Germany
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
$21.00 Add to cartTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.
In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remar- Author: Harrington, Joel F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 1250043611
- Language: English
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The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil
$25.00 Add to cartWith the appearance of the demonic Christmas character Krampus in contemporary Hollywood movies, television shows, advertisements, and greeting cards, medieval folklore has now been revisited in Ameri
- Author: Ridenour, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1627310347
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf
$29.95 Add to cartMein Kampf is one of the most widely known and heavily quoted books of all time. It demonstrates both Hitler’s ability to persuade and his ability to instill a sense of heroic destiny. When most peopl
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 08, 2010
- ISBN10: 0984536132
- Language: English
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.
$22.00 Add to cartDiscover “perhaps the funniest novel ever written” (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued
“The classic comic novel of the First World War.” —The New Yorker – “A literary masterpiece.” —New York Re
- Author: Hasek, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062835440
- Language: English
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The Third Reich: A New History
$52.99 Add to cartMichael Burleigh’s The Third Reich presents a major study of one of the twentieth century’s darkest periods.
Until now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany,- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 080909326X
- Language: English
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
$20.99 Add to cartA Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation’s leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resol- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374300224
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$14.99 Add to cartAs featured in O, Oprah Magazine, and selected for The Great American Read, the PBS series celebrating America’s 100 most-loved books.
Jane Austen’s best-loved novel is an unforgettable story about t- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 190962165X
- Language: English
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
$20.00 Read moreHow does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history–“filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries” (The N… [more below]
- Author: J?hner, Harald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593313933
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.95 Add to cartBorn in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human hear
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310396
- Language: English
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses
$8.95 Read moreA BEAUTIFUL RETELLING OF THE CLASSIC BROTHERS GRIMM TALE WITH LAVISH FULL-COLOR OIL PAINTINGS. NEW IN PAPERBACK. Ruth Sanderson retells the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long … [more below]
- Series: The Ruth Sanderson Collection
- Author: Sanderson, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1566568765
- Language: English
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
$20.00 Add to cart“[A] narrative of unfathomable courage” —Wall Street Journal
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt H??e Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escap- Author: Strauss, Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1250853567
- Language: English
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Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favorite Family Recipes
$28.99 Add to cartThis “grandmother of all Mennonite cookbooks” brings a touch of Mennonite culture and hospitality to any home that relishes great cooking. Mary Emma Showalter compiled favorite recipes from hundreds o
- Author: Showalter, Mary Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: February 02, 2015
- ISBN10: 0836199456
- Language: English
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Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
$21.99 Add to cart“Meticulously researched …compels us to confront the current-day legacy of these Nazi ties.” —Wall Street Journal
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions
- Author: de Jong, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268647
- Language: English
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Critique of Pure Reason
$22.00 Add to cartThe masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy
A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140447474
- Language: English
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Barbara Isn’t Dying
$17.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A bittersweet and hilarious novel about a marriage whose decades-old routine is suddenly upended.
Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, “comf
- Author: Bronsky, Alina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458427
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf: Official Nazi English Translation
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the Official Nazi English Translation of Mein Kampf. It was recently rediscovered after all copies were thought to have been destroyed. This is one of the rarest Mein Kampf editions ever made … [more below]
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: April 22, 2009
- ISBN10: 097747609X
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
$27.00 Add to cartA special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introdu
- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0385312083
- Language: English
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Short Stories in German: New Penguin Parallel Text
$18.00 Read moreThis new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original, with the aid of parallel translations.
- Series: Penguin Parallel Text
- Author: Zillekens, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0140265422
- Language: English
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949
$20.99 Add to cartIn the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II–pilots, navigators, and mechanics–who were finally beginning normal lives with new hous
- Author: Reeves, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 1416541209
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$18.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 1996
- ISBN10: 0449911497
- Language: English
