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41. Otto Von Bismarck: Iron Chancellor of Germany (Wicked History) by Kimberley Heuston | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2010-03)
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42. A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation by Hajo Holborn | |
Paperback: 396
Pages
(1982-12-01)
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An ecellent boook
Excellent Series on Modern German History
The Most Comprehensive German History Trilogy |
43. The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (Burleigh) by Michael Burleigh, Wolfgang Wippermann | |
Paperback: 402
Pages
(1993-02-26)
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Useful, enlightening text
Only in Germany?
Excellent book to help one understand how this happened. Not only is this book interesting for its historicalinformation, reading it enlightens the reader to more recent fascistdevelopment. After reading this book, you will never say it can't happenhere.
Extremely Informative and Interesting |
44. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 (New Approaches to European History) by Roger Chickering | |
Hardcover: 248
Pages
(2004-06-07)
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Imperial Germany and the Great War
Social and economic history--not military history
Very good book
Central Powers
A Model of Its Kind |
45. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh | |
Paperback: 656
Pages
(2009-02-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description When Hitler’s government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. According to recent estimates, as many as two million German women were raped by Soviet occupiers. General Eisenhower denied the Germans access to any foreign aid, meaning that German civilians were forced to subsist on about 1,200 calories a day. (American officials privately acknowledged at the time that the death rate amongst adults had risen to four times the pre-war levels; child mortality had increased tenfold).With the authorization of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, over four million Germans were impressed into forced labor.General George S. Patton was so disgusted by American policy in post-war Germany that he commented in his diary, “It is amusing to recall that we fought the revolution in defense of the rights of man and the civil war to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles" Although an astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era, few know of this traumatic history. There has been an unspoken understanding amongst historians that the Germans effectively got what they deserved as perpetrators of the Holocaust. First ashamed of their national humiliation at the hands of the Allies and Soviets, and later ashamed of the horrors of the Holocaust, Germans too have remained largely silent – a silence W.G. Sebald movingly described in his controversial book On the Natural History of Destruction. In After the Reich, Giles MacDonogh has written a comprehensive history of Germany and Austria in the postwar period, drawing on a vast array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period. In doing so, he has finally given a voice the millions of who, lucky to survive the war, found themselves struggling to survive a hellish “peace.” A startling account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich is a major work of history of history with obvious relevance today. Customer Reviews (15)
The untold story !
Interesting subject, sloppy (and bad) book
Very interesting book! Too bad Mr. MacDonough couldn't afford an editor!
THE OTHER SIDE HEARD
Important Historical Book Badly Written by a Terrible Author! |
46. Nazi Germany (Short Oxford History of Germany) | |
Paperback: 344
Pages
(2008-07-15)
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Effective introduction and survey of a complex period |
47. Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder | |
Hardcover: 480
Pages
(2010-03-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: “So: why are you here?” This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force field of historical, linguistic, climatic, and gastronomic barriers? Winder’s book is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. Germania is a very funny book on serious topics—how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape. Customer Reviews (6)
Typical British arrogance
Wandering Through German History
A Labor of Love, but Falls Far Short
A History Written in Marzipan
Wayward |
48. A Concise History of Nazi Germany by Joseph W. Bendersky | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2006-09-11)
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A Concise History of Nazi Germany is a brief fact-filled short history of the Nazi era by |
49. Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 (Harvard Historical Studies) by Brian Ladd | |
Hardcover: 326
Pages
(1990-08-20)
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Editorial Review Product Description This unique contribution to social and urban history describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. Brian Ladd sets the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating its physical environment. In so doing, he reveals the extent to which modern city planning is a product of the aspirations, prejudices, and frustrations of the German burghers who created it. He sifts through the often contradictory motives underlying public health works (including waterworks, sewers, baths, and parks); plans for streets and squares, especially in new developments; working-class housing, zoning, public transit, and aesthetic concerns. He examines planning as civic boosterism and as social reform, identifying the reformers and describing their role in urban politics and society. His analysis focuses on Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Frankfurt-am-Main, but also pays considerable attention to Berlin and other cities. This broad-gauged view of an increasingly popular subject will enlighten historians of Germany and of modern Europe, urban historians, city planners, and architectural historians. |
50. Bismarck and Germany: 1862-1890 (3rd Edition) (Seminar Studies in History Series) by David G. Williamson | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2010-10-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description This concise study of Bismarck's role in the unification and consolidation of modern Germany has been fully updated and expanded in the light of recent research.
Customer Reviews (6)
easier for me to comprehend
Good introduction to Imperial German history
Good book about complex subject.
An interesting study of Bismark's policies
Great book |
51. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer | |
Hardcover: 1245
Pages
(1960)
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The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich
Great History
Frightening Prophecies
The Perfect History Book
Great Read |
52. The History of Germany Since 1789 by Golo Mann | |
Paperback: 896
Pages
(1974)
Isbn: 014021707X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
53. East Germany: History by iMinds | |
Kindle Edition:
Pages
(2010-05-13)
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54. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn, Geoff Eley | |
Paperback: 300
Pages
(1984-12-20)
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Important book...badly written
Good Luck |
55. Imperial Germany 1871-1918 (The Short Oxford History of Germany) | |
Paperback: 333
Pages
(2008-06-02)
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An Excellent Overview |
56. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World by Patrick J. Geary | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1988-02-25)
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Great!
history buff
Rich and comprehensive introduction to the period
Heavy going for a "primer," but excellent work
A dry account of the Merovingian Dynasty |
57. Turning Points in World History - The Rise of Nazi Germany (paperback edition) | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(1998-09-01)
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Wow
A Great Resource |
58. Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany (Studies in Modern European History) by John M. Cox | |
Hardcover: 214
Pages
(2009-06-01)
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59. Germany: A History by John E. Rodes | |
Hardcover: 703
Pages
(1964)
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60. The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power by Sean McMeekin | |
Hardcover: 496
Pages
(2010-09-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey’s hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I—Turkey’s entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution—are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia’s yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East. (20100927)Customer Reviews (4)
Disappointing, Derivative and way too political
Great Book
Leave The Trenches!
A railwayto nowhere |
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