Book Reviews
- Ruth Andreas-Friedrich: Berlin Diaries
Berlin Underground, 1938-1945; Battleground Berlin
- Friedrich G. Barth: Insects and Flowers*
The Biology of a Partnership
- Heinrich Böll: Women in a River Landscape
A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
- Nicholas Boyle: German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
- between the bourgeoisie and officialdom
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
The Judge and His Hangman + Suspicion
- Hans Fallada: Little Man, What Now?
- struggling to survive in Germany in the Great Depression
- Walter L Friedrich: Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano
Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
- Sebastian Haffner: Defying Hitler
- a German's story, 1914 to 1933
- Stefan Heym: The Queen Against Defoe
And Other Stories
- Stefan Heym: The King David Report**
- a very funny novel about the politics of history in the 10th century BC
- Michael Hofmann: Twentieth-Century German Poetry*
- a dual language anthology
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Hyperion
- a poetical and epistolatory novel of education
- Erich Kästner: Emil and the Detectives
- children bring a thief to justice in Berlin in 1929
- Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World
- a comic historical novel about Gauss and von Humboldt
- Wolfgang Koeppen: Death in Rome*
- a German family after the war, vivisected
- Wolfgang Koeppen: A Sad Affair
- a story of obsessive love
- Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon**
- the interrogation and confession of an Old Bolshevik
- Michael Krüger: Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author
- funny short stories about books and writing
- Gert Ledig: The Stalin Organ**
- a novel of the Russian Front in the Second World War
- Monika Maron: Pavel's Letters
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
- Dirk Meier: Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
- Irmtraud Morgner: The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura**
- socialist magical realism from East Germany
- Richard Newnham: Parallel Text German Short Stories
German Short Stories 1; German Short Stories 2; Short Stories in German
- Otfried Preussler: The Little Water-Sprite; The Little Witch; The Robber Hotzenplotz; The Little Ghost*
- Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
- the classic novel of the First World War
- Andrea Maria Schenkel: The Murder Farm
- a brutal murder in post-war Germany
- Stefan Weinfurter: The Salian Century
- the German monarchy, 1024 to 1125
- Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance**
- art and politics in pre-WWII Germany and Spain
- Peter Weiss: Marat/Sade*
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade
- David E. Wellberry: A New History of German Literature
- two hundred short essays on diverse topics
- M. Charlotte Wolf: Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
- early science fiction, Weimar, post-war, and contemporary
- Herwig Wolfram: The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples
- Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
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