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  • Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy

    A Reassessment

    Edited by Michael Burri, Günter Bischof ...
    Series Book 39 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    Despite his significance, the role of Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky remains under-represented in Anglo-American Cold War scholarship. Serving as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and chancellor from 1970 to 1983, his political career oversaw seismic developments in both Austria’s postwar recovery and broader international relations with the Middle East, the Communist Bloc, and the United ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Collapse

    The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

    by Mary Elise Sarotte ...
    On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime -- nor was it the result of a bargain ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stranger in My Own Country

    A Jewish Family in Modern Germany

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    "How do things stand with German Jews [today]? In Stranger in My Own Country, Yascha Mounk gives an artful and thoughtful answer." —Paul Reitter, BookforumAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • After Hitler

    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • 1989

    The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition

    by Mary Elise Sarotte, Mary Elise Sarotte ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    How the political events of 1989 shaped Europe after the Cold War1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

    Politics, Culture, and Society

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st Century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Darkness

    The Germans, 1942-2022

    by Frank Trentmann ...
    **#1 Most Important Political Book of 2023, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)A Best Book of 2023, The Telegraph (Great Britain)A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine, including revealing new primary source material on Germany's transformation**In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Weimar Republic

    by Eberhard Kolb, Eberhard Kolb ...
    Translated by P. S. Falla ...
    In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period. In the second part he surveys and analyses scholarly research in the field which sheds light on the problems and controversies of the period in home and foreign ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Weimar Republic

    Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

    by Professor Anthony McElligott ...
    “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKThis study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Germany, 1914-1933

    Politics, Society and Culture

    by Matthew Stibbe ...
    Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping the future successes and failures of the Weimar Republic.Combining traditional political ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

    by Kay Schiller, Chris Young ...
    Series Book 42 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    The 1972 Munich Olympics—remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team—were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hyper-Zionism

    Germany, the Nazi Past and Israel

    Edited by Hans Kundnani ...
    The most thorough and damning account of German Zionism available from leading authors, academics and activists.Germany remains unmatched across Europe in its unconditional support for the Israeli state. Since October 7, 2023, the German state has particularly distinguished itself in its brutal repression of anyone who dares to speak out against Israel's crimes in Palestine. What is going on?In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD