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Translated by Simon Lewis ...

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For Germans in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the allure of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's promises for a better, brighter future promised so much. The reality was vastly different...Germany was a deeply divided nation when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. As the shadow of the swastika lengthened, its citizens quickly came to realize that the Nazis' brutal programme was ... Read more

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Nazi Women

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The Birth of Tragedy

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The Nuremberg Trials

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Hitler's American Model

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The Story of the SS

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From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths.
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I Shall Bear Witness

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The Weimar Years

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by Frank McDonough ...

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The End

Germany, 1944-45

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Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an ... Read more

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Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an
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Beyond the Wall

East Germany, 1949-1990

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The Lesser Evil

The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

by Victor Klemperer ...

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Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

by Rupert Colley ...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Having suffered during World War One – not only the indignities of political betrayal and battlefield defeat but also starvation, fuel shortages and a domestic flu epidemic – the German people were left in widespread discontent. Soon inflation and economic stagnation had further sunk the nation into exhaustion, humiliation and disillusionment ... Read more

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'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with four all-powerful commandants ruling over their sectors. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution; in reality, it marked the start of a ferocious
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Dictators and Autocrats

Nazi Billionaires

Veterans, Victims, and Memory

Life in the Third Reich

Nazi Women

The Birth of Tragedy

Iron Kingdom

The Nuremberg Trials

Hitler's American Model

Le Monde d’hier

Microcosm

The Hitler Conspiracies

The Three Lives of the Kaiser

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

The Story of the SS

The Crusades

I Shall Bear Witness

The Weimar Years

Stasiland

The End

Beyond the Wall

The Lesser Evil

Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

Checkmate in Berlin