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Mans Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl
Psychiatrist Victor Frankl tells the story of the three years he spent as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, where he discovered that the will to find meaning in life motivates human existence. One of the 10 most influential books in the Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club's 1991 "Survey of Lifetime Readers."
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Mein Kampf
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler outlines a program of blood and terror in this self-revealing classic.
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne
Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and ...
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Those Who Save Us
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Jenna Blum
A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside.
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
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Robert Kurson
The perilous, obsessive world of the deep-sea diver is revealed in this true account of a six-year quest begun in 1991 to recover items from and discover the identity of a World War II U-boat sunk off the coast of New Jersey, a place where the history books said no such ship should be. As a team of divers explores the twisted wreck underwater and ...
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Map of Bones
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James Rollins
When several people are burned to death during the theft of a religious artefact, Gray Pierce, a new member of the US SIGMA force, pursues a clandestine fraternity of alchemists who would use the artefact to establish a new world order.
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Skeletons at the Feast
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Chris A Bohjalian
In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich to reach the British and American lines, in this richly crafted novel that puts a face on one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies.
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All but my life
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Gerda Weissmann Klein
Gerda Klein has expanded her story, originally published in 1957, to include a description of her new life in the United States. She recounts in detailed prose the nostalgic story of her home and family--none of whom survived the war--in prewar Bielitz, Poland, and her three-year imprisonment in German work camps and the 1000-mile winter march. It ...
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Night
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Elie Wiesel
Wiesel's account of his own experiences in the camps during World War II has become a classic of the genre.
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Berlin Noir
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Philip Kerr
This is a combined edition of: "March Violets", "The Pale Criminal", and, "A German Requiem" by Philip Kerr.
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The Thirty Years War
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C. V Wedgwood
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
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David Howarth, Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Introduction by)
The incredible story of a Norwegian commando saved from the Nazis by residents of a small arctic village--an astonishing true story of heroism and endurance. Photos throughout.
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Every Man Dies Alone
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Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann (Translator), Geoff Wilkes (Afterword by)
This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
Liesel Meminger, a foster child living outside Munich during World War II, scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books--in this unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
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The reader
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Bernhard Schlink
A teenage boy named Michael is befriended by Hanna, a mysterious older married woman. Years later as a law student, he attends a criminal trial in which Hanna stands accused. What emerges is not only Hanna's terrible crime, but an even more dire secret that involves Michael himself. A New York Times Notable Book for 1997.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Erich Maria Remarque
Remarque's famous novel about a soldier's experiences in World War I.
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Philip Boehm (Translator)
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
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A Most Wanted Man
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John Le Carre
Le Carre's fiercely compelling novel begins as a half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. Annabel, an idealistic German civil rights lawyer, determines to save him from deportation. Soon, her client's survival becomes more important than her own career--or safety.
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Stones from the River
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Ursula Hegi (Read by)
A German dwarf named Trudi--the product of an adulterous affair--is the narrator of this story that explores the workings of guilt and hatred. The town she lives in, and whose secrets she recounts, is a microcosm of Germany itself both before and after World War II.
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Ordinary Men
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Christopher R Browning
This study is an account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Browning tells about such Germans, and helps the reader to understand, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically, from the ordinary men of the title into ...
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Letters to a Young Poet
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ...
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The Coming of the Third Reich
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Richard J Evans
This study of Hitler's rise to power in Germany analyzes that country's demise from Europe's most modern and progressive state, in 1900, to one that, by 1930, was ready to choose a man like Hitler to lead them. This is the first volume in a projected three-volume history of Nazi Germany.
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Fatherland
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Robert Harris
"Fatherland" is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday, Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, ...
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Spandau Phoenix
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Greg Iles
This book offers a superb thriller from the bestselling author Greg Iles. The Spandau Diary - what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped and sexually tormented to get it? Why did the entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over ...
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Communist manifesto
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Karl Marx
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (1848) examines the rise of the working class and its inevitable revolution. It eloquently describes capitalism's widespread influence and eventual demise, and sets forth the basis of Marxism. One of the most influential writings in history, it remains highly relevant to contemporary economic and political systems.
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