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Berlin 2, City of Smoke
• Jason Lutes
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 210 PAGES
The second in Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic.
(GER281, $22.95) |
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Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait
• Ronald Taylor
HISTORY •
1997 •
HARD COVER
• 448 PAGES
A scholarly illustrated survey of Berlin and its cultural traditions in art, architecture, music, theatre, film and literature. Organized chronologically, the book covers the full range of the cultural history of Berlin from medieval architecture to expressionism during the Weimar years, and the 1980s art scene.
(GER40, $55.00) |
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Berlin Then And Now
• Nick Gay
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 144 PAGES
Placing modern and archival photographs of the same spot side-by-side, this visual history shows the transformation of Berlin over the last 100 years.
(GER260, $19.95) |
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Berlin, City of Stones - Book 1
• Jason Lutes
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 209 PAGES
The first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy of graphic novels, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic.
(GER280, $22.95) |
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Buddenbrooks, the Decline of a Family
• Thomas Mann
LITERATURE •
1994 •
HARD COVER
• 784 PAGES
Banned and burned by Hitler, this is Mann's masterpiece about the decline of a German family at the end of the 19th century. A chronicle of middle-class life, it is the story of a family subverting its own traditions for the sake of modernity. The Nobel Prize-winning author wrote this first, and perhaps his greatest, novel when he was only 25. Mann was raised in a prosperous merchant family in Lubeck.
(GER22, $26.00) |
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Germany from Partition to Reunification
• Henry Ashby Turner
• David Young
HISTORY •
1992 •
PAPER
• 269 PAGES
An introduction to the political history of post-World War II Germany.
(GER79, $22.00) |
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, Vol. 1
• Victor Klemperer
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1999 •
PAPER
• 519 PAGES
The diaries of a Jewish professor of Romance languages in Dresden who lost his position under the Nazis but managed to survive the war. This is the first volume in a two-volume series.
(GER88, $18.00) |
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1941-1945, Vol. 2
• Victor Klemperer
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2001 •
PAPER
• 556 PAGES
The diaries of a Dresden professor of Roman languages who, being Jewish, lost his position under the Nazis but managed to survive the war in Dresden. This is the second volume in a two-volume series.
(GER89, $18.00) |
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Lola Montez, A Life
• Bruce Seymour
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1998 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
Lola's most prominent lover was Ludwig I of Bavaria, builder of famous castles and the 19th-century Main-Danube canal. It is said the king's infatuation with Lola, and her meddling in Munich university politics, were the immediate causes of the 1848 revolution in Bavaria.
(EUR89, $45.00) |
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Lonely Planet Berlin
• Andrea Schulte-Peevers
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 340 PAGES
A practical, comprehensive guide in the popular series.
(GER239, $19.99) |
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Taschen's Berlin, Hotels, Restaurants & Shops
• Angelika Taschen
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 400 PAGES
This stylish guide to the best hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes and bars in Berlin includes a pocket-sized street map marking featured destinations.
(GER275, $39.99) |
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What I Saw, Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
• Joseph Roth
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 227 PAGES
A fascinating collection of 34 political and impressionistic essays by the great novelist.
(GER257, $16.95) |
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A Woman in Berlin, Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
• Anonymous
• Philip Boehm
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2006 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
(GER174, $15.00) |
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