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1	I Will Bear Witness V01: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 more books like this by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Translator) I WILL BEAR WITNESS is the first volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew and scholar who writes of quotidian happenings in 1930s Nazi Germany. This work covers the years 1933 to 1941. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £7.33! new only from £11.09! \| first editions
2	I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years more books like this by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Preface by) I WILL BEAR WITNESS is the first volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew and scholar who writes of quotidian happenings in 1930s Nazi Germany. This work covers the years 1933 to 1941. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £5.40! new only from £7.35! \| first editions
3	I Will Bear Witness V02: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 more books like this by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Translator) I WILL BEAR WITNESS is the first volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew and scholar who writes of quotidian happenings in 1930s Nazi Germany. This work covers the years 1933 to 1941. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £7.83! new only from £13.15! \| first editions
4	The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-59 more books like this by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Translator), George Weidenfeld & Nicholson Ltd (Creator) This volume opens in June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp observations are now turned on the East German Communist Party, which he himself joins, and he notes many similarities between Nazi and Communist behaviour. ... see all copies from £9.83! new only from £15.94!
5	Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (Translator) The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a women's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realise that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for Heinz, a young, ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £7.16!
6	Europe, Europe more books like this by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Helena Franklin (Editor), Martin Chalmers (Translator) A unique, entertaining and revealing insider's tour of the new Europe as Americans never see it, by one of West Germany's leading writers. Enzensberger shows how Europe is finding a new identity. see all copies from £5.04! new only from £7.48! \| first editions
7	Civil Wars more books like this by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Pier Spence (Translator), Martin Chalmers (Translator) see all copies from £5.40! new only from £8.12! \| first editions
8	Stories of Mr. Keuner more books like this by Bertolt Brecht, Martin Chalmers (Translator) Very short and only semifictional stories, ostensibly by "Mr. Keuner," that detail Brecht's feelings about German life in the first half of the 20th century. see all copies from £5.40! new only from £7.43! \| first editions
9	Political Crumbs more books like this by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Martin Chalmers (Translator) see all copies from £3.19! new only from £7.22! \| first editions
10	Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia more books like this by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Piers Spence (Translator), Martin Chalmers (Translator) In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £6.75! \| first editions
11	Children and Fools more books like this by Erich Fried, Martin Chalmers (Translator) The first English translation of a series of short stories written by a renowned Austrian poet and novelist. The tales range from fables and parables to melancholy accounts of childhood in Vienna and exile from the Nazis in London. see all copies from £4.06! new only from £4.06! \| first editions
12	The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century more books like this by Alexander Kluge, Martin Chalmers (Translator), Michael Hulse (Translator) Scathingly clever short stories. Includes "The Devil in the White House" and "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files." At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he makes found material his own. Each of the miniatures collected here touches on "facts" and is only ... see all copies from £8.13! new only from £8.13! \| first editions
13	Mediocrity and Delusion: Collected Diversions more books like this by Hans M Enzensberger, Martin Chalmers (Translator) see all copies from £8.25! new only from £31.02!
14	The Passport by Herta Muller, Martin Chalmers (Translator) A Romanian village is caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the temptations of the West in this novel, which describes in detail the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat in the Danube Plain. see all copies from £2.67! new only from £7.39! \| first editions
15 view cover	Violetta more books like this by Pieke Bierman, Ines Reider (Translator), Martin Chalmers (Translator) Bad enough to spend a summer holiday being ogled by overweight men well past their sell by date, even worse to come back to one's desk and find out that Berlin's serial killers have not been on vacation. There's the Stamper who tracks down foreign women, strangles them and stamps T for Turk, C for Chilean, P for Pole on their forehead. Another ... see all copies from £3.38! new only from £3.38! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Orphanage more books like this by Hubert Fichte, Martin Chalmers (Translator) The first part of a trilogy whose latter volumes are currently being translated, this novel by the German writer Hubert Fichte is set during World War II in Germany, where a boy placed in a Catholic orphanage must make sense of the incomprehensible and inclement world outside. see all copies from £1.98! new only from £5.93!
17 view cover	The Aristocrat more books like this by Ernst Weiss, Martin Chalmers (Translator) The time: the summer of 1913. The place: House Onderkuhle, an exclusive boarding school for the sons of the aristocracy in eastern Belgium. The old order may be crumbling but at Onderkuhle training for a life of command goes unchallenged. The most important lessons: fencing, riding and, above all, the forms of etiquette - 'the refinements of ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £11.14! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 more books like this by Martin Chalmers This volume opens in June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp observations are now turned on the East German Communist Party, which he himself joins, and he notes many similarities between Nazi and Communist behaviour. ... see all copies from £6.76! new only from £6.76!
19 view cover	Beneath Black Stars: Contemporary Austrian Short Stories more books like this by Martin Chalmers (Editor) In the second half of the 20th century a large number of exceptional writers emerged from the small Austrian Republic. Yet the relationship of many of these writers with state and society has often been stormy as Austrian writers have felt themselves excluded from the mainstream. Beneath Black Stars provides a cross-section of the best writing ... see all copies from £1.95! new only from £3.38! \| first editions
20 view cover	Night Drive more books like this by Klaus Humann (Editor), Michael Hulse (Translator), Martin Chalmers (Translator) Comprising stories and prose by 23 writers from across Germany, this anthology is a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and styles, of childhood memories and adult crimes, of flight and thwarted passions. One common theme emerges from this variety: the recognition that the past cannot be denied. see all copies from £5.82! first editions

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