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Modern German History (nonfiction)
The history of the German empire and its influence in European history.
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The German Empire, 1870-1918
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation
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Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
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The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
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Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
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Hitler: World Tour: We Sold Our Soul
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A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
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The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
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Twentieth-Century Germany: From Bismarck to Brandt
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Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
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Reforging The Iron Cross: The Search for Tradition in the West German Armed Forces
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-45
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Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
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Rommel: The Trail of the Fox
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
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Rommel: The Desert Fox
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The German Aces Speak II: World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
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The German Generals Talk
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On Germany
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Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
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D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
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After the Wall
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Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II
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Disaster at D-day: The Germans Defeat the Allies,june 1944
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Along the Wall and Watchtower: A Journey Down Germany's Divide
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Black May
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D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
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Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945
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Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
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Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
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Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
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The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life and Legacy
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This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany 1938-40
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Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
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Germany since 1945 (Studies in Contemporary History, 24)
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The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
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The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
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The Year That Changed The World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
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The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
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War Of Numbers 1914-1916: The Kaiser's Navy Gone Rogue
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Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
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Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
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Life in the Third Reich
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Richard Bessel (Editor)
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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
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The Weimar Years Rise and Fall 1918-1933
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
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A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans
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An Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
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The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
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A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany
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Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43
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Hitler Moves East 1941–1943
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Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
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Gruesome Harvest
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Nuremberg: The Last Battle
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Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Operation Valkyrie
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Surviving the Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews After Liberation
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The Destruction of Dresden
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
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Hitler's National Socialism
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How 'socialist' was National Socialism?: A consideration of the ideology of the NSDAP in Germany
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Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber
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Night of the Long Knives (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action No. 7)
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Manstein: His Campaigns and His Trial
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