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  • Hitler: Ascent

    1889-1939

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs.“[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others can transform a country — and, in Hitler’s case, lead to an unimaginable nightmare for the world.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hitler: Downfall

    1939-1945

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent“Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • About Death Penalty. Reflections on Legal History

    From the Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian Precursors up to Gemanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages

    by Volker Krey ...
    The brief monograph at hand deals with the issue Death Penalty from a legal history standpoint. Here, after some introductory remarks on pre-state societies (hunters and gatherers), the following historic eras are subject matter: The Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian precursors, Germanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages. Target groups of this publication particularly are criminal lawyers, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Francis of Assisi

    The Life of a Restless Saint

    by Volker Leppin ...
    Translated by Rhys S. Bezzant ...
    An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the mythsOne of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians and other spiritual seekers, from medieval ascetics to 1960s hippies and modern ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Silent Death

    A Gereon Rath Mystery

    by Volker Kutscher ...
    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 2 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    The Silent Death: A Gripping Historical Mystery Set in the Shadows of 1930s Berlin"[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction."—The New York TimesVolker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with The Silent Death as a police inspector investigates crime and corruption in a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Babylon Berlin

    Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series

    by Volker Kutscher ...
    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 1 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars." --NPRBabylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Goldstein

    A Gereon Rath Mystery

    by Volker Kutscher ...
    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 3 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    **The Basis for the International TV Sensation Babylon BerlinOne of CrimeReads's Favorite Crime Books of the Year (Selected by Paul French)Volker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with Goldstein** as a police inspector investigates the crime and corruption of a decadent 1930s Berlin in the shadows of the growing Nazi movement ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bismarck

    The Iron Chancellor

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    Translated by Timothy Beech ...
    Series series Life & Times
    An accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s first chancellor.Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany put Europe on a path of disaster leading up to World War I. But, as this new edition of his accessible biography shows, the real Bismarck was a far more complex character.A leading ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

    550+ Gothic Ghost Stories, Occult Mysteries, Vampires, and Cosmic Dread

    by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce0, Arthur Machen1, William Hope Hodgson2, Arthur Conan Doyle3, Grant Allen4, Théophile Gautier5, Richard Marsh6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Thomas Hardy8, Charles Dickens9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Mark Twain3, Daniel Defoe4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Harriet Beecher Stowe5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman6, Louisa M. Alcott7, Edith Nesbit8, Mary Louisa Molesworth9, Francis Marion Crawford0, John Kendrick Bangs1, Gertrude Atherton2, J. K. Huysmans3, John Buchan4, Sabine Baring-Gould5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Oscar Wilde2, H. G. Wells3, Charlotte Perkins Gilman4, W. W. Jacobs5, Robert Louis Stevenson6, H. H. Munro (Saki)7, Wilhelm Hauff8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Jack London9, Pliny the Younger0, Helena Blavatsky1, Fergus Hume2, Florence Marryat3, Villiers de l'Isle Adam4, William Archer5, William F. Harvey6, Katherine Rickford7, Ralph Adams Cram8, Leopold Kompert9, Vincent O'Sullivan0, Ellis Parker Butler1, A. T. Quiller-Couch2, Fiona Macleod3, Lafcadio Hearn4, William T. Stead6, Gambier Bolton7, Andrew Jackson Davis8, Nizida9, Walter F. Prince0, Chester Bailey Fernando1, Brander Matthews2, Leonard Kip3, Frank R. Stockton4, Bithia Mary Croker5, Catherine L. Pirkis6, Leonid Andreyev7, Anatole France8, Olivia Howard Dunbar9, Richard Le Gallienne00, Sax Rohmer01, Horace Walpole02, William Thomas Beckford03, Matthew Gregory Lewis04, Ann Radcliffe05, Jane Austen06, John William Polidori07, Charlotte Brontë08, Emily Brontë09, Marjorie Bowen10, George W. M. Reynolds11, M. P. Shiel12, Adelbert von Chamisso13, S. Mukerji14 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn5, J. T. Bealby15, Keene Wallace16, Samuel Henley17, Isabel F. Hapgood18, C. J. Hogarth19 ...
    THE SPELL HAS BEGUN gathers more than 550 supernatural mysteries, macabre tales, and horror classics into an expansive map of the uncanny. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, and sensation fiction to decadent nightmare, psychological terror, occult speculation, and early weird fiction, the volume traces how dread assumes domestic, historical, comic, and cosmic forms. Canonical landmarks of ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martin Bormann

    Hitler's Executioner

    by Volker Koop ...
    Translated by Cordula Werschkun ...
    A biography of the man who served as head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, Hitler's personal secretary, and the monster who decided the fate of millions.Born on June 17, 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fateful Hours

    The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    From the New York Times best-selling historian, the riveting story of the Weimar Republic—a fledgling democracy beset by chaos and extremism—and its dissolution into the Third Reich.Democracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany’s first democracy endured for fourteen tumultuous years ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, and The Cold Heart

    by Adelbert von Chamisso & Wilhelm Hauff ...
    Peter Schlemihl, a down-and-out young man, finds himself at a party where he meets a mysterious stranger who offers him a seemingly incredible bargain: endless wealth in exchange for his shadow. Desperate for money, Peter agrees and soon discovers the true cost of his decision.Though he becomes incredibly wealthy, Peter's lack of a shadow leads to social ostracism and paranoia. He is unable to ... Read more

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