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  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-ReedWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination—and conscience—once again.No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of ... Read more

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  • Exit Berlin

    How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany

    Translated by Nataicha Bodemann ...
    Centered around one family's preserved personal letters, this is "an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees" ( Kirkus Reviews).Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly ... Read more

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  • Race for the Reichstag

    The 1945 Battle for Berlin

    The acclaimed historian's classic account of the Battle for Berlin offers unprecedented detail and insight into the final days of WWII in Europe.This authoritative study dispels the myths created by Soviet propaganda and describes the Red Army's final offensive against Nazi Germany in graphic detail. For the Soviets, Berlin—and the Reichstag in particular—was seen as the ultimate prize. Stalin had ... Read more

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  • Then We Take Berlin

    A Novel

    by John Lawton ...
    “A stylish spy thriller” of postwar Berlin—the first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy novels (The New York Times Book Review).John Wilfrid Holderness—aka Joe Wilderness—has gone from young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz to MI6 agent navigating war-ravaged Europe to his current career of “free-agent gumshoe” weathering Cold War fears and hard ... Read more

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  • Some Murders in Berlin

    A WWII Historical Fiction Novel

    by Karen Robards ...
    This pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these ... Read more

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  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
    "Not only a memoir, it's also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" ( Publishers Weekly).In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary ... Read more

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  • Survival in the Shadows

    Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler's Berlin

    National bestseller: This "harrowing" true story of two Jewish families who survived hiding in the heart of the Nazi capital "honors the human spirit" (Andrea Dworkin).In January 1943, unable to flee Germany, the four members of the Arndt family went underground to avoid deportation to Auschwitz. Ellen Lewinsky and her mother, Charlotte, joined them; a year later, Bruno Gumpel arrived. Hiding in a ... Read more

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  • Forty Autumns

    A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

    by Nina Willner ...
    From the bestselling author of The Boys in the Light."Top 15 Nonfiction Books of 2016. A poignant parable of hope and, at times, a harrowing ghost story." —The Christian Science MonitorIn this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the ... Read more

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  • A Quest in Berlin

    Adventurous Quests, #5

    Series Book 5 - Adventurous Quests
    This is the 5th novel in the 'Quest' series of mystery / thrillers set in the world of the 1950s.'A Quest in Berlin' plunges Andrew and Clemency into peril as they arrive in a city that still bears the scars of war and is now at the centre of the Cold War. It's a place and a situation in which they don't know who to trust.An old friend and colleague appears in Andrew's life and persuades him to ... Read more

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  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

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  • Operation Berlin

    A BRAND NEW post-war mystery from Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Ridpath

    Series Book 1 - The Foreign Correspondent Series
    Discover the first in a BRAND-NEW series of post-WW1 mysteries, from international bestselling author Michael Ridpath. An absolute must-read for fans of Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Robert Goddard.'The perfect marriage of thriller and whodunit' Simon BrettIn a city rebuilding from war, truth can be the most dangerous weapon of all.Berlin, 1930.Historian Archie Laverick, scarred mentally and phy.. ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Berlin

    The final days of Hitler's evil regime

    In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible.Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the ... Read more

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