History - Europe - Germany

In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918--which inspired events that forever changed the European continent--here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany...

Brutalist Berlin is the first in a series of beautifully produced and expertly written urban architecture guidebooks by Blue Crow Media. Written and with photography by Berlin-based Dr Felix Torkar, the book covers over fifty buildings in the German capital with details, texts and...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon * Rough Trade Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence "[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany." --The New York Times Book Review...

A sweeping, definitive history of the dynamic, expansionist dynasty that forged the Middle Ages--and Europe--as we know it. "Historical scholarship, and historical storytelling, at its finest." --Matthew Gabriele, coauthor of The Bright Ages and Oathbreakers Today, the Carolingians are best known as the dynasty...

Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen- Winston Churchill first among...

The untold story of West Berlin, the island city deep inside the Soviet bloc that withstood the decades-long confrontation between the USSR and the West Located more than one hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain, West Berlin served as a stage on which the...

A detailed account examines the late-1943 XLVIII Panzerkorps counterattack near Kiev, evaluating Harsh Wehrmacht operations, Soviet resistance, and contested memory from both sides.In late 1943, the German Army on the Eastern Front was in dire straits. Its southern army group had been pushed out...

The story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm's desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II. The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die campaign that saw the very best fighter pilots in the...

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country...

Der Hansische Stahlhof in London - Ein Vortrag, gehalten im Saale des goldenen Sterns zu Bonn am 11. März 1856Dem Deutschen, der um die Wasserseite der Stadt London zu betrachten in Westminster eines jener vielen Dampfboote besteigt, die bekanntlich gleich den Droschken in den...

What kind of mind carries out orders that change the course of history?And more importantly... could it happen again?In the aftermath of World War II, inside a heavily guarded prison in Nuremberg, twenty-two of the most powerful men of a fallen regime sat in...

Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1747 signals a...

They crossed the ocean to fight in someone else's war. They came for glory, honor, and plunder. Instead, they became America's most famous captives. In Steven Bier's groundbreaking book, Facing Washington's Crossing: The Hessians at the Battle of Trenton, old stereotypes are shattered and...

Democracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany's first democracy endured for fourteen tumultuous years and culminated with the horrific rise of the Third Reich. As one...

ENGLISHExplore the epic story of the Berlin Airlift in "Wings of Freedom." This vividly illustrated book takes you on a gripping journey through one of history's most daring operations-a humanitarian and logistical effort that defied all odds. From iconic aircraft to courageous pilots, this...

The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerFor sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states--East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany...

The dramatic true story of a handful of students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their lives, now in a stunning graphic novel. With an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist?...

A refugee child's witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family's debacle in war What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir the voice of innocence is heard. "This is great stuff," exclaims Stephen...

The German Generals who survived Hitler's Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and respect. For the first time, answers are revealed to many questions...

For generations, Operation Barbarossa has been understood as a unilateral act of German aggression: a surprise invasion driven by ideology, unleashed against an unprepared Soviet Union. But this narrative leaves critical questions unanswered-and ignores a growing body of evidence pointing in another direction.Building upon...