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Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Legend

Around the world there are hundreds of nightly performances of Goethe’s Faust as well as actual attempts at soul-selling on eBay. Faustus has rightly been described as an icon of modern culture. But in 500 years no one has written his biography—until now. Faustus is the real story behind the legend. It is the story of a 16th-century scandal, who claimed mastery of the forbidden magical arts and dared rival all... (more)

Kindertransport

by Jennifer Childers

Nurse Erika Lehmier cares for the children housed at Grafeneck Castle as though they were her own. When the SS confiscates Grafeneck, Erika discovers plans to turn the castle into a treatment center that will end the lives of children with disabilities. One of her children, Heidi, has no visible handicap, and thereby has a small chance to escape the Nazi destruction, but for the rest, Erika must find a way to... (more)

The laws of magic: Book 4

Time of trial

by Michael Pryor

THE GERMAN DICTATORSHIP, THE ORIGINS, STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISMKarl Dietrich; Gay, Peter (intro); Steinberg, Jean (translator) Bracher

THE GERMAN DICTATORSHIP, THE ORIGINS, STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM

by Karl Dietrich; Gay, Peter (intro); Steinberg, Jean (translator) Bracher

Hitler 1936-45: Nemesis (Hitler Vol 2)

Deutschlandreise

by John Irving

Cecile + Die Poggenpuhls + Mathilde Möhring

Cecile + Die Poggenpuhls + Mathilde Möhring

by Theodor Fontane

The zookeeper's war

by Steven Conte

Cartea Mironei

by Cella Serghi

Himmler's Crusade: Race

by Christopher Hale

" As the Indiana Jones films showed, Nazis, new age mumbo-jumbo and exotic locations are a formula that works. Christopher Hale's gripping and well-researched tale of an SS-sponsored scientific mission to Tibet in 1938-39 has the whole shebang: mad occult beliefs, mountains, strange charactors called Bruno or Ernst and stomach-churning concentration camp experiments to round things off." -- The Sunday Times... (more)

Laocoon: An essay on the limits of painting and poetry

Laocoon: An essay on the limits of painting and poetry

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician. Lessing invented the modern concept of the artistic medium and modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of the individual arts. A new Foreword by Michael Fried emphasizes Lessing's current importance regarding trends in art... (more)

Why I Am So Wise

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Orientalist : Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

The Orientalist : Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

by Tom Reiss

A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s... (more)

Official Secrets

by Richard. Breitman

by Jo Schulz-Vobach

Absolute Friends

by John le Carre

An absolutely triumphant bestsellereverywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carr has been building since the fall of communism. This epic tale of loyalty and betrayal spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is the thrilling work of international... (more)

by Philip Kerr

Hitler's prisons : legal terror in Nazi Germany

Hitler's prisons : legal terror in Nazi Germany

by Nikolaus Wachsmann

State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this system of brutal legal terror. Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror... (more)

Colditz : the untold story of World War II's great escapes

Colditz : the untold story of World War II's great escapes

by Henry Chancellor

Breathtaking and mesmerizing, Colditz: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes is a gripping tale of perseverance, heroism, and adventure. Filled with the thrilling never-before-told personal stories of the prisoners of war held within it's walls -- who made it their personal duty and obsession to escape -- Colditz offers endlessly intriguing stories of consummate survivors who proved the human spirit... (more)

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