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  • Berlin! Berlin!

    Dispatches from the Weimar Republic

    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 1 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy," as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky's news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Berlin Wall Today

    Remnants, Ruins, Remembrances. A New Picture Travel Guide to the Remainders of the Wall Since the Fall of the Iron Curtain and t

    The Berlin Wall Today is a richly illustrated full color book that takes the reader on a tour of the last traces and fading memories of the historic symbol of the Iron Curtain - to memorials, parks, hidden back yards, old train tracks, factory buildings, churches, and Prussian cemeteries. The Berlin Wall Today tells stories of struggle, desperation, survival, and rebirth and of a history that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leipzig!

    Bach, Luther, Faust. The City of Books and Music

    Leipzig is the city of books and music. Johann Sebastian Bach composed his cantatas in the St. Thomas Church; Martin Luther disputed the future of Christianity at Germany's second oldest university; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust" got into a brawl at Auerbach's Keller, one of many historical trade-fair buildings. Leipzig, the site of one of the world's oldest and largest book fairs, is ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Rheinsberg

    A Story Book for Lovers

    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 2 - Tucholsky in Translation
    One summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of Berlin, in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country houses and castles, cobble-stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky's first literary success and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hereafter

    We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 5 - Tucholsky in Translation
    What happens after you die? Where will you go? Will you have a harp, and wings? Will you still have your sharp wit? Does it do you any good? Were you happy with your life? Did your family love you? Or, at least, your mistress? And do you want a second chance to return to earth? In Hereafter. We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs Kurt Tucholsky, the iconic German Jewish author and poet of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings

    The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series Book 3 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Prayer After the Slaughter

    Poems and Stories From World War I

    Series Book 4 - Tucholsky in Translation
    No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 101 Amazing Facts About Germany

    Series Book 2 - Countries of the World
    In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Germany. Separated into sections such as its geography, its people, famous German figures from history and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Germany, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful country, this is an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A German Life

    I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can't make me feel guilty.Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and, eventually, Joseph Goebbels. Christopher Hampton's play is based ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Look Who's Back

    by Timur Vermes ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
    THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD"A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE"Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT"An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express"There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer</e... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Aftermath

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

    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

    $8.99 USD

  • They Thought They Were Free

    The Germans, 1933–45

    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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus