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"Golden" Twenties, The: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republicby: Schrader, Barbel and Jurgen Schebera

"Golden" Twenties, The: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic
by: Schrader, Barbel and Jurgen Schebera

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, paperback. Cultural criticism regarding the Weimar Republic. With many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Examines intellectual life in the Weimar Republic, looks at paintings, caricatures, dance, architecture, and films, and discusses the Nazi rise to power.

Record # 951709

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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955by: Jahner, Harald

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
by: Jahner, Harald

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself put of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust.

Record # 383496

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Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Franks, Norman

Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Franks, Norman

Hardcover. London, Grub Street, First Edition , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. 50th Anniversary Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket, bright & in very good condition. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 750680

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Berlin Journal, 1989-1990by: Robert Darnton

Berlin Journal, 1989-1990
by: Robert Darnton

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages. Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification continues, it is worth recalling the revolutionary moment when immense crowds took to the streets of Leipzig and Berlin under the banner "We Are the People" and brought down one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships. Robert Darnton's eyewitness account of those historic days "is direct and vivid. His prose conveys the immediacy of the drama." He gives us a memorable cast of characters, from two experts on the repair of broken-down Trabis to the environmental councilor for the polluted city of Bitterfeld, and Isaak Behar, a Jew who managed to survive the Holocaust while hiding in wartime Berlin. With wit and insight Darnton takes us behind the scenes to meet "ordinary people grappling with great change, humanizing history."

Record # 374332

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Berlin Yesterdayby: Wolsdorff, Christian (Ed.)

Berlin Yesterday
by: Wolsdorff, Christian (Ed.)

Softcover. Corte Madera, CA, Gingko Press, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, black & white photograph, 96 pages. "This book is a remarkable collection of photographs that will take you on a fascinating journey back to Berlin of the 1920s and early 1930s". A bright, clean copy.

Record # 200549

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Berlin: The City of Eternal Becomingby: Chiaramonte, Giovanni

Berlin: The City of Eternal Becoming
by: Chiaramonte, Giovanni

Hardcover. US, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2010-02-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Text in German. English language booklet included. Text by Kurt Forster. Color photos of Berlin's unseen corners.

Record # 350089

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Bombing of Germany, Theby: Rumpf, Hans, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

Bombing of Germany, The
by: Rumpf, Hans, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, shows a little age wear, but in good condition. Covers bound in black, excellent. Pages unmarked and clean. Top edge dyed. In very good condition.

Record # 31010

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Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republicby: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic
by: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Hardcover. Berkeey, University of California, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, nearly 150 b&w photos accompany the text. A survey of photography in East Germany; from 1945 to 1989. In a very good dust jacket with light fade to spine. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while also providing an illustrated social history of people 'caught' in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires."

Record # 357546

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Countdown! 35 Daylight Missions Against Nazi Germanyby: Koger, Fred

Countdown! 35 Daylight Missions Against Nazi Germany
by: Koger, Fred

Hardcover. New York, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230202

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Das Ende 1945 Der verdammte Kriegby: Guido Knopp

Das Ende 1945 Der verdammte Krieg
by: Guido Knopp

Hardcover. Munchen GR%, C. Bertelsmann, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. GERMAN TEXT.

Record # 374153

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Das Hotel Adlonby: Demps, Laurenz/Paeschke, Carl-Ludwig

Das Hotel Adlon
by: Demps, Laurenz/Paeschke, Carl-Ludwig

Hardcover. Berlin GR, Nicolai Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. The history of Berlin's grand hotel. The Adlon opened on October 23, 1907, with the Kaiser, his wife, and many other notables in attendance. It quickly became the social center of Berlin. As the rooms in the Stadtschloss were cold and drafty, the Kaiser paid an annual retainer to keep suites available for his guests.[2] Likewise the Foreign Office used the Adlon for accommodation during state visits, with guests including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. Notable guests of the early years included industrialists such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as politicians like Walter Rathenau, Gustav Stresemann and the French prime minister Aristide Briand. Many wealthy Berliners lived for extended periods of time in the hotel, while its ballrooms hosted official government functions and society events. Many photos. Clean copy.

Record # 382115

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De Oorlog In Prent / Karikaturen Uit De Versehillende Landenby: Feith, Jan

De Oorlog In Prent / Karikaturen Uit De Versehillende Landen
by: Feith, Jan

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Schetern & Giltay, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, 190 pages. A collection of b&w (a few 2-color) political cartoons preceding WW I. Dutch text. Scarce.

Record # 20589

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Deutschland erwacht Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAPby: Bade, Wilfrid

Deutschland erwacht Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP
by: Bade, Wilfrid

Hardcover. Hamburg, Cigaretten Bilderdienst, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with embossed gilt design on front cover. 150 pages with 225 mounted black and white and color images. German text. There is a frontispiece portrait of Hitler and a few other similar panels. A monumental propaganda work on Herr Hitler, Der Fuhrer, 9" x 12", The quality of the photographs is excellent, but one giant picture at the end, which opens out to 6 solid pages all joined together showing "Standartenweihe im Luitpoldhain1933" A vast sea of Hitler's armed forces in a giant arena. All photographs were taken and carefully selected by Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler's official photographer. Hoffmann's photography was used. A chilling piece of German history and a fascinating example of the NSDAP's propaganda machine. Volume shows some shelf wear, name on half-title page, good plus overall.

Record # 381147

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E.O. Hoppe: The German Work: 1925-1938by: Phillip, Prodger

E.O. Hoppe: The German Work: 1925-1938
by: Phillip, Prodger

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w plates throughout. Hoppe traveled throughout Germany between 1925 and 1938, photographing movie stars, workers and peasants, the birth of the Autobahn, and the explosion of industrial building. This collection includes parts of his 1930 book "Deutsche Arbeit" and many photos never previously seen. Clean copy in a dust jacket.

Record # 359189

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Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896)-Anton Dohrn (1840-1909): Briefwechsel. Hrsg. von Christiane Groeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Klaus Hierholzer. Mit einer historischen Einfuhrung von Ernst Floreyby:

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896)-Anton Dohrn (1840-1909): Briefwechsel. Hrsg. von Christiane Groeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Klaus Hierholzer. Mit einer historischen Einfuhrung von Ernst Florey
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Softcover. Berlin, Springer., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages. GERMAN TEXT. Like new condition.

Record # 374338

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Entscheidung Stalingrad-Das Buch zur TV Reihe Der verdammte Krieg by: Guido Knopp

Entscheidung Stalingrad-Das Buch zur TV Reihe Der verdammte Krieg
by: Guido Knopp

Hardcover. Munchen GR%, C. Bertelsmann, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, text illustrations., maps, bibliog., Foreword by Lew Kopelew. GERMAN TEXT. Highly pictorial account of the disastrous German campaign 1942-43. Cllean copy.

Record # 374152

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Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitlerby: Pfister, Tom; Pfister, Kathy; Pfister, Peter

Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler
by: Pfister, Tom; Pfister, Kathy; Pfister, Peter

Softcover. West Lafayette IN, Purdue University Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 529 pages, b&w illustrations. Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans-Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic-who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing-directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation-also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.

Record # 379571

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Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Musicby: Kupferberg, Herbert

Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Music
by: Kupferberg, Herbert

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket price clipped with slight rubbing, wear, sunning to edges and spine. Internally very good.

Record # 810173

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Flame of Freedom - The German struggle against Hitler, Theby: Zeller, Eberhard

Flame of Freedom - The German struggle against Hitler, The
by: Zeller, Eberhard

Hardcover. London, Wolff, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 471 pages. Dust jacket worn, with rubbing and small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608355

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Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany by: Edward L. Homze

Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany
by: Edward L. Homze

Hardcover. Princeton University Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine on black ground, 350 pages., illustrated with tables. The book sets out to "describe the inception, organisation, and administration of the Nazi foreign labor program and the relationship of the program to the Nazi war economy and government". It uses captured documents as well as material published during the war. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.

Record # 379009

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From Caligari to California: Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Warsby: Hardt, Ursula

From Caligari to California: Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars
by: Hardt, Ursula

Softcover. Providence RI, Berghahn Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Known as one of the great producers and promoters of the film industry, Eric Pommer had a life-long commitment to German film - despite his emigration in 1933 - and worked in France and Britian, as well as the United States. As German producer, studio executive, and film politician in the pre-Hitler era Erich (later Eric) Pommer (1889-1966), a native of Germany, was an innovator and pioneer, a vital force in leading German cinema to international acclaim with successes such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Nibelungen and The Blue Angel. As Motion Picture Control Officer of the US Military Government he undertook , from 1946-49, the difficult task of rebuilding West Germany's film industry from the ashes of the Second World War. He succeeded brilliantly, but not without paying the hefty price of becoming embroiled in the turmoil of postwar German politics which made him many friends, but also many enemies. This book is the first detailed account in English of the remarkable career of Pommer who became a legend in his own lifetime. Clean copy.

Record # 384496

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German Amateur Photographers in the First World War: A View from the Trenches in the Western Frontby: Remus, Sebastian

German Amateur Photographers in the First World War: A View from the Trenches in the Western Front
by: Remus, Sebastian

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Military History Book, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 368335

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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitlerby: Turner Jr., Henry Ashby

German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler
by: Turner Jr., Henry Ashby

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 504 pages, b&w illustrations. After scrutinizing the attitudes of the Nazi Party's leadership - Hitler in particular - toward economic issues and big business, the author proceeds to trace the known contacts between the Nazis and the men of big business down to the triumph of Nazism in 1933. For the first time, the story is told from both sides, employing documentation from Nazi as well as business sources. In the course of assessing the significance of financial contributions to Hitler's party, the author provides the first systematic analysis of Nazism's sources of income. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 397521

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German Fury in Belgium, Theby: Mokveld, L.

German Fury in Belgium, The
by: Mokveld, L.

Hardcover. New York , George H. Doran, unknown, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 249 pages. Faint foxing to edges, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857004

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German Social Democracyby: Russell, Bertrand

German Social Democracy
by: Russell, Bertrand

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 184 pages, clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 383729

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Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontologyby: Taminiaux, Jacques

Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology
by: Taminiaux, Jacques

Hardcover. New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750005

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Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science [Anti-Duhring]by: Engels, Frederick

Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science [Anti-Duhring]
by: Engels, Frederick

Hardcover. Moscow, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 364 pages. Dust jacket w/ edge wear, pieces missing; protected by mylar cover. Staining to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850749

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How We Squandered the Reichby: Spitzy, Reinhard

How We Squandered the Reich
by: Spitzy, Reinhard

Hardcover. Wilby UK, Michael Russell Publishing, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 391 pages, b&w illustrations, translated from the German by G.T. Waddington. An insider's account of the turbulent rise and fall of Hitler's "Thousand Year Reich". Clean copy.

Record # 385371

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Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign by: Hans Speidel

Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign
by: Hans Speidel

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Map endpapers, 176 pages, b&w photos. The first book by a German general published in America after the war, a German account of the D-Day & Normandy 'invasion' by Allied forces; the author was Rommel's Chief-of-Staff and therefore had an inside view of Rommel's efforts to get Hitler to negotiate a peace in the face of overwhelming Allied superiority. Speidel was a career military officer and trained historian; a German nationalist, he disagreed with racist Nazi policies, was involved in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler, and was important in rebuilding Germany's army after the war. Clean copy.

Record # 383876

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Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation by: Walker, Mack

Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
by: Walker, Mack

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating life is a microcosm of the life and style of the empire itself. The biography provided a comprehensive picture of the empire between the Thirty Years War and the revolutionary era. Dust jacket spine faded otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 386030

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Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahlby: Bach, Steven

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
by: Bach, Steven

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages. The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself--Bach gives us an exceptional work of historical investigation that untangles the past and is also an objective but unsparing appraisal of a woman of spectacular gifts corrupted by ruthless personal ambition.

Record # 362412

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Lya De Putti: Loving Life and Not Fearing Deathby: Peter Herzog, Romano Tozzi

Lya De Putti: Loving Life and Not Fearing Death
by: Peter Herzog, Romano Tozzi

Hardcover. NY, Corvin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 121 pages. Includes a bibliography and filmography. Lya de Putti's star shone for such a short time. Her star-making role in Variety, with Emil Jannings, happened just six years prior to her death. There's not a lot of information available about her but the authors have put together what they were able to find in a well-written, interesting manner. The turmoil, the films and the foibles are all here for reading purposes. INSCRIBED BY HERZOG on title page. Clean copy.

Record # 384823

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LZ 129 Hindenburgby: Douglas Robinson

LZ 129 Hindenburg
by: Douglas Robinson

Softcover. NY, Arco Publishing , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled booklet, 52 pages. Famous Aircraft Series. "This book contains: - . a history of airships - . a description of a typical "voyage" in the mighty "Hindenburg" - . 51 photographs - . 16 scale drawings - the actual Flight Handbook issued to German airship commanders". Small notation on copyright page, otherwise clean.

Record # 380636

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Medieval Germany and its Neighbours: 900-1250by: Leyser, K. J.

Medieval Germany and its Neighbours: 900-1250
by: Leyser, K. J.

Softcover. London, The Hambledon Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages. The inner workings of early medieval societies cannot be understood without also studying their links - religious, cultural, economic and political - with their neighbours. In this collection Karl Leyser shows how Ottonian and Salian Germany both influenced and was influenced by the societies with which it came into contact. While the author's central interest is in Germany, his work is of value for the study of medieval European society as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 382031

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Mensur & Schmiss: German Dueling Societies by: Stanley B Burns, MD; Elizabeth A Burns; J Lawrence Burns

Mensur & Schmiss: German Dueling Societies
by: Stanley B Burns, MD; Elizabeth A Burns; J Lawrence Burns

Softcover. NY, Burns Archive Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 106 pages, b&w and color illustrations. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on the title page. This is the first photographic history of the student academic duel, the Mensur, practiced in Germany since the eighteenth century. The slashing swordplay of this fascinating Western European ritual often resulted in a Schmiss, or facial scarification. The Schmiss scar was a record of one's courage, cherished as a badge of honor that signified masculinity and high social position. This compilation of over 175 images documents all aspects of the tradition: combatants, seconds, referees, spectators and attending surgeons before, during, and after the Mensur, as well as the celebrations and social functions that were part of Germanic student life. The Mensur is still practiced today although hidden from public view. The astute observations of Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome, both travelers through Germany during the nineteenth century, are included. This book emphasizes the Corps and other elite fraternity groups that engaged in Mensur, vividly documenting the camaraderie, seriousness, reality and violence of the academic duels. Clean copy.

Record # 397245

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Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940by: Price, Renee / Lauder, Ronald S./Peters, Olaf/ Staggs, Janis

Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940
by: Price, Renee / Lauder, Ronald S./Peters, Olaf/ Staggs, Janis

Hardcover. Munch/London/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 656 pages. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, this stunning volume celebrates the varied achievements of modern art history in the German-speaking world by examining historical developments in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940. Illustrated throughout with exquisite reproductions of the museum's holdings, this book considers the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings on the fine arts and examines the founding of the Secessionist artists' organizations in Germany and Austria. Insightful essays trace the emergence of Expressionism and abstraction, as well as the development of such movements as Dada and New Objectivity. Evolutions in architecture and design are appraised through the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as the establishment of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony and the Wiener Werkstatte. The book also examines the role of the German Werkbund and the founding of the Bauhaus school. Finally, the book briefly addresses the horrific impact of the National Socialists' degenerate art campaign, which resulted in incalculable damage and led to the exile and death of artists and designers of the era. From well-known artists such as Otto Dix, Josef Hoffmann, Vasily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, to lesser recognized but equally important figures, including Albert Birkle, Alfred Kubin, Felix Nussbaum, and Dagobert Peche, this book offers an authoritative and kaleidoscopic look at a crucial moment in history and a portrait of radical thought that changed forever the way we experience art in our lives. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397345

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Munich 1923: The Story of Hitler's First Grab for Power by: John Dornberg

Munich 1923: The Story of Hitler's First Grab for Power
by: John Dornberg

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 385 pages, b&w photos. A fast-moving re-enactment of the thirty hours of Hitler's 1923 Munich beerhall putsch, based on newspaper reports, police documents, trial records, and the personal recollections of participants and eye-witnesses.

Record # 384878

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Munich: Prologue to Tragedyby: Wheeler-Bennett, John W.

Munich: Prologue to Tragedy
by: Wheeler-Bennett, John W.

Hardcover. NY , Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor dust jacket with chipping, fading, especially to spine. Wheeler-Bennett worked as the director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs' information department. In particular, Wheeler-Bennett lived in Germany in 1927-1934 and witnessed firsthand the rise of Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Wheeler-Bennett was a critic of Appeasement, and 10 years after the Munich Agreement wrote a book condemning it. Footnotes. Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography. Index. 507 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396261

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Norway 1940 by: Kersaudy, Francois

Norway 1940
by: Kersaudy, Francois

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 31008

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Nuremberg Diaryby: Gilbert, G. M.

Nuremberg Diary
by: Gilbert, G. M.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has tape repairs in the reverse side. In August 1945, Great Britain, France, the USSR and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime for the plotting of aggressive warfare, the extermination of civilian populations, the widespread use of slave labor, the looting of occupied countries, and the maltreatment and murder of prisoners of war. G.M. Gilbert (1911-77) was the prison psychologist before and during the Nuremberg trial. He had an unrivaled, firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Goering, Speer, Hess Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. 471 pages, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 396257

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On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitlerby: Hamerow, Theodore S.

On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler
by: Hamerow, Theodore S.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal?

Record # 852285

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Paris in the Third Reich: A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944 by: David Pryce-Jones

Paris in the Third Reich: A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944
by: David Pryce-Jones

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, 294 pages. Depicts the German occupation of Paris during World War II from the perspectives of both the defeated Parisians and the victorius Germans, accompanied by 116 contemporary photographs in b&w, some color. Clean copy.

Record # 374123

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Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwerk 1953by: Keetman, Peter (Photographer)

Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwerk 1953
by: Keetman, Peter (Photographer)

Hardcover. Kerber, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. In 1953, Peter Keetman spent a week at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg. The result was a series of exceptionally clear, almost abstractly detailed photographs that document the entire production process of the VW Beetle. Storage stacks of shiny metal bumpers look like so many Modernist sculptures; car bodies hovering above the assembly line retrospectively form a surreal Pop art montage. This oversize publication reproduces the Volkswagenwerk series in full, in their original size, together with texts that refer both to this series and to Keetman's greater oeuvre. Keetman was known throughout his career as photographer of systemically conceived picture series on themes that included close-ups of water and oil drops, a style of working he developed as a member of Fotoform. Fotoform, a German movement of the 1950s of which Keetman was a primary proponent, was critical in the development of German photography as it is today: the group's "subjective photography" combined scientific objectivity with abstraction. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 351371

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Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US by: Bendavid-Val, Leah

Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US
by: Bendavid-Val, Leah

Hardcover. Zurich/NY, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. 223 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Text by Leah Bendavid-Val. Includes images by Max Alpert, Dmitri Debakov, Georgy Lipskerov, Max Penson, Leonid Shokin, Esther Burley, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, and numerous others. Afterword by Philip Brookman and with biographies of the photographers. Clean copy.

Record # 385826

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Roer River Battles: Germany's Stand at the Westwall, 1944

Roer River Battles: Germany's Stand at the Westwall, 1944

Hardcover. Casemate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 264 pages. Following the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944, the vaunted German Army seemed on the verge of collapse. As British and US forces fanned out across northwestern France, enemy resistance unexpectedly dissolved into a headlong retreat to the German and Belgian borders. In early September an elated Allied High Command had every expectation of continuing their momentum to cripple the enemy's warmaking capability, by capturing the Ruhr industrial complex and plunging into the heart of Germany. After a brief pause to allow for resupply, Courtney Hodge's First Army prepared to punch through the ominous but largely outdated Westwall (Siegfried Line) surrounding Aachen. Drawing on primary Wehrmacht and US sources, including battle analysis and daily situation and after-action reports, The Roer River Battles provides insight into the desperate German efforts to keep a conquering enemy at the borders of their homeland. Tactical maps down to battalion level help clarify the very fluid nature of the combat. Combined, they serve to explain not just how, but why decisions were made and events unfolded, and how reality often differed from doctrine in one of the longest US campaigns of World War II.

Record # 374078

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Rose Blancheby: Innocenti, Roberto/Christophe Gallaz

Rose Blanche
by: Innocenti, Roberto/Christophe Gallaz

Hardcover. Mankato, Creative Education Inc., 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Roberto Innocenti. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610732

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Sirens & Sinners: A Visual History of Weimar Film 1918-1933by: Hans Helmut Prinzler

Sirens & Sinners: A Visual History of Weimar Film 1918-1933
by: Hans Helmut Prinzler

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Celebrates the height of Weimar cinema through images and commentaries on more than seventy of its finest films Between the First and Second World Wars, Germany under the Weimar Republic was the scene of one of the most creative periods in film history. Through the silent era to the early years of sound, the visual flair and technical innovation of its filmmakers set an international standard for the powerful possibilities of cinema as an art form, with movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Metropolis, and M building a legacy that shaped the world of film. Here is a showcase of more than seventy films, selected to give a wide-ranging overview of Weimar cinema at its finest. Every genre is represented, from escapist comedies and musicals to gritty depictions of contemporary city life, from period dramas to fantastical visions of the future, with themes such as sexuality and social issues tackled by iconic stars like Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brooks. A wealth of film stills captures the bold vision of great directors like Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch, while the text sets the historical scene and gives intriguing insights into what the films meant to the society that created them.

Record # 380760

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Stresemann and the Rearmament of Germanyby: Hans W. Gatzke

Stresemann and the Rearmament of Germany
by: Hans W. Gatzke

Hardcover. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 386031

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The End: Hamburg 1943by: Nossack, Hans Erich; Andres, Erich [Photographer]; Agee, Joel [Translator]

The End: Hamburg 1943
by: Nossack, Hans Erich; Andres, Erich [Photographer]; Agee, Joel [Translator]

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 87 pages. Foreword, black and white photographs, and colophon. A description of the Allied bombing campaign from the perspective of the German survivors.

Record # 372848

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The German Army 1870 1945by: N/A

The German Army 1870 1945
by: N/A

Hardcover. August Paul Wooster and Sons, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Unpaginated, but approx. 200 pages. Numerous b&w and color illustrations of uniforms, dress, weapons, insignias, etc, appear to be assembled from German pictorial sources. Clean, bright copy. Self-published.

Record # 385547

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