Book Reviews
- Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang: The Burning Blue
A New History of the Battle of Britain
- Ruth Andreas-Friedrich: Berlin Diaries
Berlin Underground, 1938-1945; Battleground Berlin
- Richard Bessel: Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Comparisons and Contrasts
- Christopher Clark: Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- Anna Funder: Stasiland
Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
- Deniz Göktürk, et al.: Germany in Transit
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
- Leonard Gross: The Last Jews in Berlin
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
- Sebastian Haffner: Defying Hitler
- a German's story, 1914 to 1933
- Edward R. Haymes, Susann T. Samples: Heroic Legends of the North*
An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles
- Monika Maron: Pavel's Letters
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
- Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought
Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
- Benno Müller-Hill: Murderous Science
Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945
- Andrés Neuman: Traveller of the Century*
- the great German novel, in Spanish?
- Andrea Maria Schenkel: The Murder Farm
- a brutal murder in post-war Germany
- Bernhard Schlink: Guilt about the Past
- the post-war German experience
- Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner*
A Life in Physics
- Jonathan Steinberg: Bismarck: A Life
- an engaging but uneven biography
- Stefan Weinfurter: The Salian Century
- the German monarchy, 1024 to 1125
- Osmar White: Conquerors' Road
An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945
- Herwig Wolfram: The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples
- Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
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German language |
German literature
My mother was born in Berlin in 1945; her parents - both half-Jews
according to Nazi racial theory - were members of the Ernst group,
part of the German Resistance. And my grandfather worked on post-war
denazification of cultural figures such as Wilhelm Furtwängler.