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  • Kafka's Prague

    by Klaus Wagenbach ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    Series series Armchair Traveller
    Nearly one hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Kafka is regarded as one of the most significant intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and even for those who are only barely acquainted with his novels, stories, diaries, or letters, “Kafkaesque” has become a term synonymous with the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Doctor Goebbels

    His Life and Death

    by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel ...
    Quite possibly the most dangerous and intelligent member of the Nazi hierarchy, Joseph Goebbels’s flair for propaganda and spectacular organization ensured the fu¨hrer’s rise to power. As founder of the Reich Chamber of Culture, gauleiter of Berlin, and architect of complex machinery of modern totalitarian propaganda, Goebbels is considered one of the most evil figures of the twentieth century. It ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Notes on Nationalism

    by George Orwell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Good Living Street

    The fortunes of my Viennese family

    by Tim Bonyhady ...
    From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval.In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self

    by Melita Maschmann ...
    Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self by Melita Maschmann (translated from the German by Geoffrey Strachan, with a new introduction and an afterword by Marianne Schweitzer Burkenroad with Helen Epstein; 98,000 words, 10 photographs)Account Rendered was first published in Germany in 1963 as Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch or Account Rendered: No attempt at justification. Maschmann wrote ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Explaining Hitler

    The Search for the Origins of His Evil, updated edition

    by Ron Rosenbaum ...
    In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.A balanced and thoughtful overview of a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Butcher's Tale

    Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Last Train

    A Family History of the Final Solution

    by Peter Bradley ...
    ‘Haunting.’ Jonathan Freedland ‘Powerful.’ Daniel FinkelsteinThe profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain.In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia.The Last Train is a profound and moving ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death

    Reflections on Memory and Imagination

    by Otto Dov Kulka ...
    Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Impossible Exile

    Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

    by George Prochnik ...
    An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan ZweigBy the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

    by James Hawes ...
    Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Kafka

    The Torment of Man

    by René Marill-Albérès, Pierre de Boisdeffre ...
    Translated by Wade Baskin ...
    This is a study of Kafka's tragic vision of life, his profoundly disturbing awareness of man's utter loneliness in a pitiless universe, and his artistry in effecting a strange intimate fusion between symbolism and realism—between anguished poetic narration and the terrifying reality of an absurd and ambiguous environment. The book discusses the historical setting, the literary currents, and the ... Read more

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