Germany
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A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
- £20.00
- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
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All that I am
- £15.00
- Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
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Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
- £16.00
- With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Fading Light, the tragedy of Spiritual Decline in Germany
- £15.00
- T. C. Hammond (1877-1961) was an Irish Anglican minister who moved to Sydney, Australia in 1935 to take up the position of Principal of Moore College. This volume is a compilation of talks given at St Philips church where he was also rector, in the middle of the 2nd World…
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Gaglow (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sarah is an actress and a single mother, living in a tiny flat in Camden Town, when she hears that Gaglow, the grand German estate seized from her family before the War, is to be returned to them. As Sarah pesters her father about Gaglow, so a rich and complex…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
- £20.00
- No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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Munich
- £12.00
- MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two…
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- £10.00
- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
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Star 111
- £18.00
- Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize / Longlisted for the 2022 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger / Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix Femina tranger #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List. November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a…
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The Berlin Wall Story: Biography of a Monument
- £15.00
- Where did the Berlin Wall actually stand? Why was it built? How did people keep managing to escape across it? And how many died in the attempt? Why did it come down in the end? Numerous previously unknown photographs document the construction of this barrier system of barbed wire, alarm…
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The End of a Mission
- £35.00
- Novel of post-war Germany by 1972 Nobel laureate. Well translated by Leila Vennewitz
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The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45
- £85.00
- Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major…
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The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- £11.00
- From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In…
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The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
- £5.00
- In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall…
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The Tunnel
- £15.00
- This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes…
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The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution
- £15.00
- At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatives of all the principal Nazi agencies in…
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The Wooden Horse
- £15.00
- It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the…
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The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
- £14.00
- Stefan Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday, (Die Welt von Gestern) is a unique love letter to the lost world of pre-war Europe The famous autobiography is published by Pushkin Press, with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Stefan Zweig's memoir,…
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
- £14.00
- Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A…
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A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
- £20.00
- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
- Add to basket
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All that I am
- £15.00
- Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
- Add to basket
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Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
- £16.00
- With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before…
- Add to basket
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Fading Light, the tragedy of Spiritual Decline in Germany
- £15.00
- T. C. Hammond (1877-1961) was an Irish Anglican minister who moved to Sydney, Australia in 1935 to take up the position of Principal of Moore College. This volume is a compilation of talks given at St Philips church where he was also rector, in the middle of the 2nd World…
- Add to basket
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Gaglow (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sarah is an actress and a single mother, living in a tiny flat in Camden Town, when she hears that Gaglow, the grand German estate seized from her family before the War, is to be returned to them. As Sarah pesters her father about Gaglow, so a rich and complex…
- Add to basket
-
In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
- Add to basket
-
In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
- £20.00
- No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It…
- Add to basket
-
Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
- Add to basket
-
Munich
- £12.00
- MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two…
- Add to basket
-
Narcissus and Goldmund
- £10.00
- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
- Add to basket
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Star 111
- £18.00
- Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize / Longlisted for the 2022 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger / Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix Femina tranger #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List. November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a…
- Add to basket
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The Berlin Wall Story: Biography of a Monument
- £15.00
- Where did the Berlin Wall actually stand? Why was it built? How did people keep managing to escape across it? And how many died in the attempt? Why did it come down in the end? Numerous previously unknown photographs document the construction of this barrier system of barbed wire, alarm…
- Add to basket
-
The End of a Mission
- £35.00
- Novel of post-war Germany by 1972 Nobel laureate. Well translated by Leila Vennewitz
- Add to basket
-
The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45
- £85.00
- Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major…
- Add to basket
-
The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- £11.00
- From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In…
- Add to basket
-
The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
- £5.00
- In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall…
- Add to basket
-
The Tunnel
- £15.00
- This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes…
- Add to basket
-
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution
- £15.00
- At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatives of all the principal Nazi agencies in…
- Add to basket
-
The Wooden Horse
- £15.00
- It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the…
- Add to basket
-
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
- £14.00
- Stefan Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday, (Die Welt von Gestern) is a unique love letter to the lost world of pre-war Europe The famous autobiography is published by Pushkin Press, with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Stefan Zweig's memoir,…
- Add to basket
-
Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
- Add to basket
-
Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
- £14.00
- Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A…
- Add to basket