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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

    $32.99 CAD

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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

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hitler 1936-1945

    Nemesis

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    Following the enormous success of HITLER: HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhinelland occupation and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Aftermath

    Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

    by Harald Jähner ...
    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

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Third Reich at War

    1939-1945

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    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

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  • Soldiers

    German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying

    by Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer ...
    On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The German War

    A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945

    by Nicholas Stargardt ...
    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

    $21.99 CAD

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II

    A Life in Power

    by Christopher Clark ...
    King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. But how much power did he really have?The acclaimed historian Christopher Clark follows Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the turbulent decades of the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hitler's Spy Chief

    The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

    by Richard Bassett ...
    How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort.Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • 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

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Swiss and the Nazis

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

    by Stephen Halbrook ...
    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

    Edited by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    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

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