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  • Gay Berlin

    Birthplace of a Modern Identity

    by Robert Beachy ...
    An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Who Ran the Cities?

    City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750–1940

    by Ralf Roth ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a ... Read more

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    Gay Berlin

    Birthplace of a Modern Identity

    by Robert Beachy ...
    Narrated by James D Sasser ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 52 min

    An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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    Without Consent

    A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

    by Sarah Weinman ...
    Narrated by Sarah Weinman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Collaboration

    Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler

    by Ben Urwand ...
    To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself--obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
    "Not only a memoir, it's also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" ( Publishers Weekly).In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary ... Read more

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  • Witness to the German Revolution

    by Victor Serge ...
    Dispatches from a workers' revolt by the Memoirs of a Revolutionary author, "one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes" (Susan Sontag, winner of the National Book Award).Following in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by World War I, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backing Hitler:Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Coming Out Under Fire

    The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II

    During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Bérubé examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation — not as a story of how the military ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • In Bed With Gore Vidal

    Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master

    by Tim Teeman ...
    Gore Vidal claimed there was no such thing as “gay,” only gay sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and sexuality—and how did it affect and influence his writing and public life? With In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master, Tim Teeman interviews many of Vidal’s closest family and friends, including Claire Bloom and Susan Sarandon, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Gestapo: A History of Hitler's Secret Police 193345

    A History of Hitler's Secret Police 1933–45

    Series series World War II Germany
    From its creation in 1933 until Hitler's death in May 1945, anyone living in Nazi-controlled territory lived in fear of a visit from the Gestapo an abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei or secret state police. Young or old, rich or poor, nobody was beyond the attentions of a brutally efficient organization that spread its malign influence into every corner of Europe in the wake of the all ... Read more

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  • Prince Eddy

    The King Britain Never Had

    by Andrew Cook ...
    Prince Albert Victor, King Edward VII's (r. 1901-10) first son and heir to the throne, and popularly known as Eddy, has virtually been airbrushed out of history. Eddy was as popular and charismatic a figure in his own time as Princess Diana a century later. As in her case, his sudden death in 1892 resulted in public demonstrations of grief on a scale rarely seen at the time, and it was even ... Read more

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