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  • Marseille 1940

    The Flight of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in Marseille with the aim of rescuing as many as possible. This is the harrowing story of their flight from the Nazis under the most ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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    The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

    by Uwe E. Reinhardt ...
    From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • February 1933

    The Winter of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary scene gave way to a long, dark winter, and how the net drew ever ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Peace and Chaos

    A great discovery should not end up as the creator of mad disease neither in the present nor in the future!

    by Uwe ...
    An artistic piece of portrayal of modern-day yin-yang, push-pull, space-time, force-gravity or Peace and Chaos. A beautifully chronicled literature of moder-day Chaos unleashed by Internet on our lives and to restore some Peace back is so exquisitely portrayed using different shades of a modern-day femme fatale.Internet was supposed to be the discovery of the Century, it turned out as a modern-day ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anniversaries, Volume 2

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968–August 1968

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Kraftwerk

    Future Music from Germany

    by Uwe Schütte ...
    The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anniversaries, Volume 1

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, August 1967–April 1968

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times critics.Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2018, Anniversaries is now available as two individual volumes. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Tower

    Tales from a Lost Country

    by Uwe Tellkamp ...
    In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Parthians

    The Forgotten Empire

    by Uwe Ellerbrock ...
    Series series Peoples of the Ancient World
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire, which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD.The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents in the east, but comparatively little is known about them. The Parthians focuses on the rise, expansion, flowering and decline of the Parthian Empire and covers both the wars with the Romans in the west ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Anniversaries

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    The Writers' Castle

    Reporting History at Nuremberg

    by Uwe Neumahr ...
    Narrated by Iain Batchelor ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    A fascinating new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness itNuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner.Crammed together in the press camp ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Luftwaffe War Diary

    by Uwe Feist, Thomas McGuirl ...
    Visual history of the German air force in World War II.Hundreds of color and b/w images of pilots and crews, aircraft, uniforms, awards, sidearms, and moreIncludes Stuka dive-bombers, Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters, and other planesMust-have for historians, modelers, World War II buffs, and aviation enthusiasts ... Read more

    $25.99 USD