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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.95A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945?from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War. In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler , acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe... more...
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 33.95In the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, West German industrialists faced a major crisis in their public image. With mounting revelations about the use of forced and slave labor, the "Aryanization" of Jewish property, and corporate profiteering under National Socialism, industrialists emerged from the war with their national and international... more...
Moltke on the Art of War
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.00Prussian hero Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke was the architect of the German way of war. more...
Jahrbuch der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften (2007)
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 84.00Die Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, eine der traditionsreichsten Einrichtungen ihrer Art, vereint Gelehrte unterschiedlichster Fachrichtungen. In ihrem Jahrbuch wird die Entwicklung der Akademie innerhalb eines Geschäftsjahres nachgezeichnet. Neben Jahresbericht, Preisträgern und dem Mitgliederverzeichnis werden hier insbesondere... more...
Cruel World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and starvation. Defect-free ?good blood?... more...
Jahrbuch der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften 2008
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 84.00The Göttingen Academy of Sciences is one of the most venerable institutions of its kind, bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The yearbook traces the development of the Academy over one year of operations. Apart from the Annual Report, details of awards and a register of members, the yearbook is particularly concerned... more...
Silent Night
Free Press 2001; US$ 17.99It was one of history's most powerful -- yet forgotten -- Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in spite of orders to the contrary by superiors; it happened in spite of language barriers. And it still stands as the only time in history that... more...
The Magic Lantern
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely... more...
Under a Bomber's Moon
Exisle Publishing 2009; US$ 7.49In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each others paths. UNDER A BOMBERS MOON reaches across the divide of years, of geography, of nationality to tell their story largely in their... more...
In Europe's Name
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 29.00For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe tells the story of German reunification. Garton Ash has produced a panoramic, dramatic, and definitive account of events that are continuing to transform... more...









