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A lively, slim account of the moral upheavals that rocked the Biedermeier sensibilities of Kant's birthplace (later the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad).

A Scandal in Königsberg

Christopher Clark

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For anyone who wants to understand how a democracy slides into a dictatorship, this compelling account might be a useful place to start. It shows the grisly anti-logic of a process that was ... read more

Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

Volker Ullrich

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The tale of a courageous but hapless group of well-connected plotters in Berlin, carefully researched by the author of The Escape Artist.

The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betr ...

Jonathan Freedland

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The concluding volume in his thorough quartet on German history. Well illustrated, this book details the Nazi rise to power through the development of the persecution of the Jews.

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945

Frank McDonough

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U-boats were central to Hitler's strategy, a major threat to the Allied forces. Intensely claustrophobic, at the mercy of the elements, they were also feared by their crews who had the highe... read more

Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-boat War 1939-45

Roger Moorhouse

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A short, unnerving novel about difficult and dynamic people, in which Klaus Kinski returns to the German stage in 1971 with a performance about Jesus Christ, provoking outrage.

Jesus Christ Kinski

Benjamin Myers

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A collection of short crime stories that refract the multitudinous nature of Hamburg and its inhabitants.

Hamburg Noir

Jan Karsten

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A delightful facsimile of the slim, marbled notebook of CDF's final years. Includes drawings of firs, birds and bare winter branches. The original recently fetched almost £2million at aucti... read more

Caspar David Friedrich: The Karlsruhe Sketchbook

Stephanie Buck

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Spans his entire career, from training in postwar Dresden to international success, up to his most recent works in the last 5 years. From a major new show at Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Richter

Dieter Schwarz

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The German Paintings before 1800: National Gallery Catalogues ...

Susan Foister

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A romance set in Germany that looks at the disaffection of young men and how they can turn to the promises of authoritarianism. First published in 1934 and reissued by Persephone for the 80t... read more

Crooked Cross

Sally Carson

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This deeply researched account sets the collection of fairy tales in the context of the brothers' wider endeavour to create a national German cultural identity.

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Ann Schmiesing

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Sociable, intriguing and entertaining: Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg escaped her early, abusive marriage to the Grand Duke Konstantin to live in Germany and Switzerland. H... read more

The Rebel Romanov

Helen Rappaport

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The Hohenzollerns' distaste for the Weimar Republic (which ousted them) led to close personal alliances with the Nazis, which in turn encouraged many of their supporters to do likewise.

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration ...

Stephan Malinowski

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The uprising of ordinary people in 1524 was the largest before the French Revolution; its end was ghastly. This first revisiting of the subject in a generation is by the Regius Professor of ... read more

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War ...

Lyndal Roper

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A flock set about investigating the murder of their shepherd... A re-issue of this funny, unusual mystery that finds much of its humour in the foibles of its humans.

Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

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A reissue of Erpenbeck's masterful novella, set on a lakeside in Brandenburg where a young architect has just built a house.

Visitation

Jenny Erpenbeck

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From hauling steamships through the jungle to living among grizzly bears, the man who ate his shoe tells all. Book of recipes to follow?

Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir ...

Werner Herzog

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ANW is an astonishing author. His prodigious output is of an exceptionally high quality. Besides novels and works of history, he has now written several excellent biographies (Tolstoy, Milto... read more

Goethe: His Faustian Life

A. N. Wilson

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Published a hundred years ago, Mann's novel is often said to define an era.. A young engineer, Hans Castorp, arrives in a lung sanatorium in Davos to visit his sick cousin, but ends up stayi... read more

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

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Published a hundred years ago, Mann's novel is often said to define an era.. A young engineer, Hans Castorp, arrives in a lung sanatorium in Davos to visit his sick cousin, but ends up stayi... read more

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

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For his first 36 years, Hölderlin engaged with the world. The second half of his life - the subject of this book, by the celebrated European philosopher - was spent as a 'madman' in the hom... read more

Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843 ...

Giorgio Agamben

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This study of Hitler's inner circle, from one if the great historians of the Third Reich, sheds new light on how so many 'ordinary Germans' became involved in the crimes of Nazi Germany.

Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich ...

Richard J. Evans

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A couple lost their intimacy somewhere along the road of their marriage. Set over a three-week period, away from home, this is a skillful unpicking of connubial and familial dynamics. Krien'... read more

The Fire

Daniela Krien

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The democratic experiment of 1918-1933, from defeat in WW1 to the rise of the Nazis. Jähner's description of living through this chaotic period is almost as thrilling as Hitchcock.

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Harald Jähner

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The poetical bread for Caspar David Friedrich's butter.

German Romantic Poets

Charlotte Lee

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A gorgeous book on CDF on the 250th anniversary of his birth, to accompany the spectacular exhibition in Hamburg. Notes, essays and outstanding reproductions.

Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age

Markus Bertsch

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The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece ...

Horst Kruger

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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel ...

Kati Marton

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The Third Reich in History and Memory

Sir Richard J. Evans

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Night Hunters: A Black Forest Investigation IV

Oliver Bottini

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Love in Five Acts

Daniela Krien

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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

Paula Byrne

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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

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Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans ...

Christopher Clark

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Deutschland – The MICHELIN Guide 2022: Restaurants (Michelin Red ...

Michelin

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