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  • The Girl at the Orga Privat

    A Short Novel from Berlin

    Series Book 23 - German Studies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
    In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colleagues laugh at her unfashionable clothes and dub her «The Girl at the Orga Privat» when she is given an old typewriter of that make to work on.The eighteen-year-old Erna must find her way not only in the big city, and among the other young women, but ... Read more

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  • Revolutions and Peace Treaties 1917–1920

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    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
    This book, first published in 1972, is an analysis of popular movements, political convulsions and settlements that led to and resulted from the climax of the First World War and its aftermath. It considers the aims, achievements and failures of both the Allied and Central Powers, the major internal changes which took place during and just after the war, and the significance of the newly shaped ... Read more

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