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Mans Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl
Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" -- the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud. In it, Dr. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the ...
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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, a best-seller when it was first published in 1969, brought Kurt Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction. Vonnegut was a POW held in Dresden in 1945 when the city was attacked by American bombers and virtually obliterated, leaving more than 130,000 people dead. He uses that event as the climax of this ...
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Night
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Elie Wiesel
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms ...
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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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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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A Most Wanted Man
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John Le Carre (Read by)
Hailed as the literary master for a generation ("The London Observer"), "New York Times"-bestselling author le Carr returns with a stunning, compelling work set in Hamburg--a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Erich Maria Remarque
The Greatest Novel about the First World War and an International Bestseller All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting ...
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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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Communist manifesto
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Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has been shaken repeatedly by those who sought to make its declamations a reality. But the focus of this modern edition is not primarily the vivid history of Marx and Engels' most important work. Rather, ...
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The reader
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Bernhard Schlink
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in ...
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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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Hiding Place
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Corrie Ten Boom
As the Nazis swept through Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of God. This is Corrie's story of how her family offered shelter to persecuted Jews, how the family was betrayed and imprisoned, and yet they retained their faith.
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The Unlikely Spy
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Daniel Silva
Germany, 1944. The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one ofHitler's last spies in Britain - Catherine Blake, a sleeper planted before the war and awaiting orders...British intelligence also has its orders, and academicAlfred Vicary has been recruited by ...
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Those Who Save Us
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Jenna Blum
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi ...
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Letters to a Young Poet
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Drawn by some sympathetic note in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. An accompanying chronicle of Rilke's life shows what he was experiencing ...
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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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Skeletons at the Feast
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Chris A Bohjalian
Capturing both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war, Bohjalian's latest work puts a moving face on one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies.
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
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Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke (Foreword by)
This history of the Paris peace talks after World War I was a New York Times "Editor's Choice" for 2002.
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The Coming of the Third Reich
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Richard J Evans
This title unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill ...
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Stones from the River
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Ursula Hegi
Set in a small German town, this novel spans both World Wars. Through the voice of Trudi Montag, it explores the secrets and actions that shape the people's fates. Trudi is a "Zwerg", or a dwarf - short, undesirable and different, and she is the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in.
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Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant
Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mind-thoughts, ideas, and ...
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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William L Shirer
Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions ...
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Amber Room
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S Berry
When her father dies, a judge is launched headlong into a mystery that involves Nazis, corrupt Russian officials, and, most dangerous of all, ruthless art collectors.
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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Patrick J Buchanan
From one of the nation's preeminent conservative thinkers comes this masterful if controversial history of the two World Wars that ended Europe's global dominance and cost Britain her empire, largely due to the blunders of Winston Churchill. 8-page photo insert.
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Introduction by)
From the bestselling author of "Undaunted Courage" and "D-Day," the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterrest days of the war. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the ...
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