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  • The Night of Broken Glass

    Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht

    Edited by Uta Gerhardt, Thomas Karlauf ...
    November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany’s assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally mistreated. Thousands more fled their homelands in Germany and Austria, shocked by what they had seen, heard and experienced. What they took ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Goffman's Legacy

    by Luiz Carlos Baptista, Ann Branaman, James J. Chriss, Norman K. Denzin, Uta Gerhardt, Charles Lemert, Philip Manning, Anne Warfield Rawls, Mary F. Rogers, Thomas J. Scheff, Gregory W. H. Smith, A Javier Treviño ...
    Series series Legacies of Social Thought Series
    Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century. A keen observer of the interaction order of everyday life, Goffman's books, which have sold in the hundreds of thousands, continue to be widely read and his concepts have permanently entered the sociology lexicon. This volume consists of ten original essays, all written by prominent ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Hitler

    The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

    by Ernst Hanfstaengl ...
    Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would some day come to power. As Hitler’s fanatical theories and ideas ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Hitler: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.What made a failed Austrian artist into the most reviled and destructive personality of the twentieth century? Where did the seeds of his rabid anti-Semitism lie? How did a marginalized loner become such a moving force in Germany? How could a nation have fallen for such a fanatic? What made him so determined to bring about war?Through ... Read more

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  • The Gestapo

    The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

    by Frank McDonough ...
    A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of the involvement of the German ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Voices from the Holocaust

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror.While some of the eye-witnesses are well ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Aftermath

    Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

    by Harald Jähner ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more?This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The *New York Times)—*of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Lone Assassin

    The Epic True Story of the Man Who Almost Killed Hilter

    by Helmut Ortner ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That is, however, until he took it upon himself to attempt to assassinate the Führer, Adolph Hitler. Being a common man who opposed the Nazi regime, Elser took the skills from his craft and worked to assemble his own bomb detonator. Every night, he snuck out to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • They Thought They Were Free

    The Germans, 1933–45

    by Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans ...
    National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." — The New York TImesThey Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the ... Read more

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  • Adolf Hitler

    The Definitive Biography

    by John Toland ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of the Holocaust

    by Pat Morgan ...
    For 12 long years between 1933 until 1945, the inhuman Nazi regime in Germany waged a brutal, pitiless war on groups of people whom they considered inferior. Jews, Roma, Slavs, the disabled and homosexuals, as well as political opponents and religious enemies, were among the victims of what would become known as the Holocaust. Jews, whom the Nazis believed had been the authors of their country's ... Read more

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