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  • Lusitania

    The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

    by Willi Jasper ...
    Translated by Stewart Spencer ...
    A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including 128 American citizens, lost their lives. The sinking of a civilian passenger vessel without warning was a scandal of international scale ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The End

    The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 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

  • The Third Reich at War

    1939-1945

    Series Book 3 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and Hitler's People“This is history in the grand style, the kind of large-scale narrative that few historians dare to write these days. It is difficult to imagine how it could be improved upon, let alone surpassed.” —The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The German War

    A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945

    A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause in World War IIIn The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of firsthand testimony -- personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence -- to explore how the German people experienced the Second World War.When war broke out in September 1939, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fateful Choices

    Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Swiss and the Nazis

    How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich

    The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses "a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught" ( Daly History Blog).While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath.This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices ... Read more

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  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

    by David Stahel ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Moral Combat

    Good and Evil in World War II

    The renowned WWII historian offers a penetrating analysis of the ethical dilemmas faced by leaders and ordinary soldiers in this "powerful, gripping book" ( Washington Times).In Moral Combat, Michael Burleigh delivers a brilliant new examination of the day-to-day moral crises underpinning the momentous conflicts of the Second World War. A magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and ... Read more

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  • Royals and the Reich:The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany

    The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany

    The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Exorcising Hitler

    The Occupation and Denazification of Germany

    The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearlyunprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteenhundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany.The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. TheGerman people stood at the brink of starvation, millions of them stillin POW camps. This was the starting point as the Allies set out to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD