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The Agricola and the Germania • Tacitus • Harold Mattingly • S.A. Handford HISTORY • 2010 • PAPER • 121 PAGES Two texts of classical antiquity by Tacitus. Agricola is a eulogy for his father-in-law, the governor of Roman Britain. Germania is one of the earliest and most extensive account of the early Germanic World and the Goths, Visigoths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Celts, Vikings and other ancient peoples of the region. (EUR182, $15.00)
All Along the Rhine: Recipes, Wine and Lore from Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Holland • Kay Shaw Nelson CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2003 • PAPER • 211 PAGES A tribute to the Rhine Valley, its history, culture and especially its food. Combining over 130 authentic recipes with small bits of background information, this is a delightful introduction to the culinary traditions of the region. (GER111, $14.95)
All Quiet on the Western Front • Erich Maria Remarque LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER • 295 PAGES This powerful novel is about "a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war." It is the story of Paul Baumer, a 20-year-old German enlistee, innocent of life, but soon to be all too knowledgeable about death. Written by a soldier in the kaiser's army, this novel has been hailed as the greatest novel of World War I, and was later made into a memorable film. (GER15, $15.00)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay • Michael Chabon LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 656 PAGES A dazzling tale that follows its heros from Nazi-occupied Prague to New York and the Antarctic, where US forces are stationed to keep an eye on the Germans. Houdini, the Golem, Hitler, inventor of the superhero Stan Lee and other mostly historical figues make an appearance in the lives of Chabon's protagonists Joe and Sammy. Even if you're not much interested in New York or the golden age of comic books (and are puzzled by swoops and twists of the comic-book plot), you'll appreciate Chabon's flair for language and his characters. It won a Pulitzer. (ANT175, $17.00)
America's Great War, World War I and the American Experience • Robert H. Zieger HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 275 PAGES A study of how America's future was profoundly shaped by its involvement in WWI. (WAR82, $29.95)
The Anglo-Saxons • James Graham Campbell HISTORY • 1982 • PAPER • 272 PAGES Traces the history of England from the end of Roman rule to the Norman Conquest. (GBR403, $28.00)
Architecture of New Prague 1895-1945 • Rostislav Svacha • Alexandra Buchler • Jan Maly ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1995 • HARD COVER • 544 PAGES Originally published in Czech in 1985, this groundbreaking book stakes out the first half of the 20th century as a seminal period for Czech architecture. It's a major scholarly survey of cubist, rondocubist and constructivist contributions to Prague, with site plans, excellent black-and-white photos of buildings and scholarly paraphernalia. (CZH49, $75.00)
Art and Society in the Middle Ages • Georges Duby ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2000 • PAPER • 128 PAGES A study of the relationship between the production of art and the nature of Medieval society. Noted French historian Georges Duby draws on religion, culture, government, geography, and, of course, artistic pursuits in this portrait of the Middle ages. (EUR85, $30.55)
Art From the Ashes • Lawrence L. Langer ANTHOLOGY • 1999 • PAPER • 1995 PAGES A powerful collection of stories, journals, essays, poetry and prose about the Holocaust, including both familiar writers like Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, and lesser known figures, both Jewish and non-Jewish. With most works presented in full, Langer includes a novel by Aharon Appelfeld, a novella by Pierre Gascar, and Joshua Sobol's controversial play Ghetto. (EUR131, $41.95)
Avant-Guide Prague, Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventures • Dan Levine GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 328 PAGES Created by a former Frommer's writer who wanted to make guidebooks which were neither travel essays nor phone books, this opinionated volume packs useful, youthful information into a colorful format. Includes interviews with Czech notables, maps, photos and some of the funniest descriptions to ever grace a "guidebook." Each restaurant, shiop, hotel or site is given a nice, long description. The jazzy design, with text often printed against a dark background, looks interesteing but makes this book none too easy to read. What were they thinking? (CZH22, $19.95)
The Axe • Ludvik Vaculik • Marian Sling LITERATURE • 1994 • PAPER • 223 PAGES A story of ideology, played out between father and son, set against the cultural reawakening of 1960's Czechoslovakia. (CZH34, $16.00)
Baltic Light, Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany • Helmut Borsch-Supan • Helmut Rudolf Leppien • Catherine Johnston ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1999 • HARD COVER • 220 PAGES The French en plein air movement and the distinctive light of the north came together in the early 19th century to create a style unique to the Baltic. With particular attention paid to Caspar David Friedrich, this beautifully illustrated work covers 109 works by 36 artists. Explanatory essays and biographies of each artist accompany the paintings. (DMK23, $75.00)
Bauhaus • Frank Whitford ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1984 • PAPER • 216 PAGES An illustrated survey of the highly influential Bauhaus school of design in the "World of Art" series. Whitford follows the movement from its early 20th century history in Germany up through the mark it has left on today's society. With 150 illustrations in color and black-and-white. (GER55, $19.95)
Before the Deluge, A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's • Otto Friedrich CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1995 • PAPER • 418 PAGES A fascinating portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, this book features illuminating essays and an extraordinary collection of contemporary images of the city before the devastation of WWII. (GER11, $17.99)
The Bells in Their Silence, Travels through Germany • Michael Gorra TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2006 • PAPER • 232 PAGES A reflection on a year in Germany, literary and finely tuned to culture, stereotype and self. The book is a rather mystifying mix of observation, literary analysis and philosophical musing. Gorra (who wrote After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie) teaches English at Smith College. (GER142, $21.95)
Beneath the Wheel • Hermann Hesse LITERATURE • 1989 • PAPER • 187 PAGES Though Hesse lived much of his life in exile, his affection for his native province is very evident in this short book, which prizes simple village life above urban sophistication. The story is set a village in the black forest not unlike where Hesse was born. (GER105, $16.00)
Berlin • David Large HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 608 PAGES An engaging, textured portrait of the city from German Unification to 1989. (GER73, $32.50)
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)
Berlin Map • Borch Maps 2006 • MAP A laminated, folded map of the city center of Berlin at 1:11,500 and of all Berlin at 1:18,000. Perfect for quick and easy reference. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (GER127, $8.95)
The Berlin Stories • Christopher Isherwood LITERATURE • 2008 • PAPER • 256 PAGES Published in 1946, these two short novels "Goodbye to Berlin" and "The Last of Mr. Norris" evoke Bohemian life and the growing Nazi movement in pre-World War II Germany. The 1951 theater adaptation I am a Camera (starring Julie Harris) and, especially, Bob Fosse's musical adaptation "Cabaret," made Isherwood famous. (GER19, $15.95)
Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman • Alan John Percivale Taylor BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1975 • PAPER • 288 PAGES This classic biography, first published in 1955, casts the Prussian prime minister and Germany's first chancellor as more of an opportunist than a planner. (GER85, $15.00)
The Blue Flower • Penelope Fitzgerald LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER • 225 PAGES Set in the Age of Goethe, this exquisitely written short novel is a fictional account of the life of the Romantic poet Novalis (here called 'Fritz'). It's a spare, illuminating portrait of the daily drudgeries, petty formalities, and especially the romantic frustrations of a man who's ahead of his time. It also paints a vivid picture of German intellectual and mercantile life in the late 1700s. (GER21, $13.00)
Blue Guide Czech and Slovak Republic • Michael Jacobs GUIDEBOOK • 1999 • PAPER • 448 PAGES A comprehensive travel guide with a focus on history, architecture and art. Michael Jacobs, a popular author of guidebooks, presents a thorough portrait of the region. (CZH18, $24.95)
Blue Guide Prague • Jasper Tilbury GUIDEBOOK • 2004 • PAPER • 224 PAGES A detailed guide to the jewel of Eastern Europe complete with practical information, maps and cultural and historical background of Prague and Central Bohemia. With a color map, site plans and line drawings. (CZH56, $21.95)
The Book of Images • Rainer Maria Rilke • Edward Snow LITERATURE • 1994 • PAPER • 280 PAGES Poems and lyrics from Rilke during his most emotional and impressionistic period (1902-1906), ably translated by Edward Snow and presented in bilingual format on facing pages. With poems reflecting on his childhood in Bohemia. (GER122, $16.00)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting • Milan Kundera LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 312 PAGES Called a novel, this book is actually equal parts fairy tale, autobiography, philosophical treatise and literary criticism. Kundera strings together loosely related short stories to form an original and entertaining look at Czech culture. (CZH17, $14.99)
Bradt Guide Eccentric Britain • Benedict le Vay GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 384 PAGES From Longleat's Marquess of Bath and his 'set' of 62 'wifelets' to Biddeford's four acre Gnome Reserve, home to over a thousand of the little red-capped critters, and Chipping Campden's World Shin-kicking Championships, le Vay's book is an engaging and amusing read as well as being a practical travel guide. Lost for ideas? A calendar to the Eccentric Year is at hand - it's May so it must be the Randwick Wap religious cheese rolling festival. If you can wait a while August sees Tatton Park host the English Open Chainsaw Competition. Elsewhere, the guide details the Falkirk Wheel's triumph of eccentric engineering, which raises up to six boats at a time 155 feet from a canal to an aqueduct. However, if all this weirdness leaves you feeling a little jaded a trip to Salcombe, Devon and an encounter with Overbeck's Rejuvenator, just one of the items on display at the Electric Shock Museum, may ginger things up a bit... (GBR586, $24.99)
Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays • Stanislaw Baranczak CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1992 • PAPER • 258 PAGES Poet and professor Stanislaw Baranczak, a fixture on the Eastern European intellectual scene in the second half of the 20th century, reflects on writers and writing in this collection of stimulating and insightful essays. (EUR139, $12.50)
A Bridge Too Far • Cornelius Ryan HISTORY • 1995 • PAPER • 670 PAGES War historian Cornelius Ryan chronicles in detailed, readable prose the battle of Arnhem, one of the most important -- and bloodiest -- campaigns in World War II. (WAR21, $19.99)
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)
The Burgermeister's Daughter, Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town • Steven Ozment HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 256 PAGES Meticulously researched and absorbing, this narrative by a Harvard historian traces the legal battle of the daughter of a well-to-do family who was thrown out of her home and disinherited in 1525. It's a true story expertly drawn from letters and court records, rich in details of life in a 16th-century German town. (GER25, $13.99)
Bury Me Standing • Isabel Fonseca CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1996 • PAPER • 322 PAGES The Roma, as the Gypsies call themselves, have a long tradition in Eastern European culture -- influencing the music, foods, religious and folk traditions. This is an excellent book on the evasive subject of Roma culture in Eastern Europe, painstakingly researched by Ms. Fonseca as she traveled and lived among Gypsies. Black-and-white photos help give a human face to the conditions of the Roma, their history among the settled peoples of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany and the prospects for their cultural survival in the "new" Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $16.00)
Cadogan Guide Bavaria • Rod Bolt GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 244 PAGES A compact travel guide to Bavaria, Franconia and the Romantic Road in the well respected British series. It offers a good overview of the culture and history of the region and detailed travel information on sites and attractions. (GER52, $21.95)
Candles in the Dark, A New Spirit for a Plural World • Barbara Baudot • Vaclav Havel ANTHOLOGY • 2003 • PAPER • 400 PAGES A thought-provoling and timely guide to putting globalization and public policy into a firm ethical context. With contributions by diverse scholars, politicians and advocates. (WLD36, $27.95)
The Castle, A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text • Franz Kafka • Mark Harman • Malcolm Pasley LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 328 PAGES The story of a man, known only as K, and his fruitless struggle to gain entrance into The Castle and all that the castle may represent. This new translation of Kafka's unfinished masterpiece does great justice to the author's powerful tale. (EUR68, $15.00)
Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages • Alain Erlande-Brandenburg ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2010 • PAPER • 175 PAGES This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe. (MED07, $15.95)
Central Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt 2010 • MAP This colorful regional European map, like the sister map Europe Grand Tour (EUR185), covers from Paris and Amsterdam to Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Rome and Dubrovnik. One Side. 49x34 inches. (EUR12, $14.95)
Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends • Lonnie Johnson HISTORY • 2010 • PAPER • 382 PAGES An academic survey of the social, political, and economic past of Central Europe, and the conflicts that stir modern-day European politics. From medieval to modern times, the formative historical events of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia, are all introduced. Johnson is especially successful in analyzing the struggle of small nations in the face of imperial powers and how these experiences have created a diverse European heritage. With maps. Awarded an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by Choice. (EUR69, $47.25)
Citizen Soldiers • Stephen Ambrose HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 528 PAGES Told through the perspectives of Allied soldiers on the front lines, this is Ambrose's account of the battles fought in the year between D-Day and the German surrender. Visceral and well researched, it's subtitled "The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945." (WAR19, $18.00)
City Flash Berlin • Hallwag MAP A sturdy, easy-to-fold city map and city guide including transportation, major sites and index. Two Sides. 33x52 inches. (GER42, $9.95)
Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 240 PAGES The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world. (FRN536, $12.00)
Companion Guide Berlin • Brian Ladd GUIDEBOOK • 2004 • PAPER • 488 PAGES A comprehensive guide in the British series, strong on culture and history. The author, a professor of urban studies at SUNY Albany, has written widely on Berlin and its architecture. Ladd also wrote The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. (GER148, $34.95)
The Complete Stories • Franz Kafka LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER • 486 PAGES All of Kafka's stories, including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, and In The Penal Colony. Edited by Nahum Glatzer with a foreword by John Updike. (CZH47, $17.00)
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941 • Michael Beschloss HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 400 PAGES A bestselling, popular history of the politics and diplomacy among Allied leaders leading up to the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. (GER164, $16.00)
Conquest of Nature, Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany • David Blackbourn NATURAL HISTORY • 2006 • HARD COVER • 608 PAGES Bringing together politics, culture, economics and ecology, Blackbourn looks at the history of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century to the present through the lens of water and landscape developments. (GER169, $29.95)
Czech and Slovak Republics Map • Freytag & Berndt 2006 • MAP A detailed, fully indexed map to the Czech and Slovak Republics at a scale of 1:400,000. It is also the most detailed map available of the route of the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest. Published in Austria. Two Sides. 35x49 inches. (EUR35, $14.95)
Czech and Slovak Republics Map • Michelin Travel Publications 2005 • MAP • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A shaded relief map of the two nations at a scale of 1:600,000, with insets of Prague and Bratislava. It also covers the route of the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest. One Side. 40x56 inches. (CEU17, $12.95)
Czecho/Slovakia: Ethnic Conflict, Constitutional Fissure, Negotiated Breakup • Eric Stein HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 386 PAGES A fascinating, scholarly account of Stein's experiences consulting on constitutional reform in Czechoslovakia. A Czech-born professor of law at the University of Michigan, Stein was asked by Havel and the government to participate in drafting the democratic constitution (a process which ultimately resulted in the orderly breakup of the country). In addition to his own experiences and research, Stein interviews dozens of politicians and others about the failure to reach agreement. (CZH40, $37.50)
The Danube Cycleway, Donaueschingen to Budapest • John Higginson GUIDEBOOK • 2003 • PAPER • 168 PAGES A compact, practical guide to the 85-mile biking route along the Danube from Donaueschingen in Bavaria though Austria to Budapest. (CEU20, $18.95)
A Dark and Bloody Ground, The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 • Edward G. Miller HISTORY • 1995 • HARD COVER • 250 PAGES In the waning months of World War II, a series of battles were fought in the Hurtgen Forest of Germany, mostly under miserable conditions. One of the lesser discussed campaigns of the war, it resulted in thousands of American deaths, and stood in sharp contrast to the victory at the Battle of the Bulge. This is the well documented story of events. (WAR26, $32.95)
The Doughboys, America and the First World War • Gary Mead HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 494 PAGES A history of World War I through the eyes of the American veterans who fought in its trenches. In presenting their accounts Mead argues the Doughboys, the three million American volunteers of the American Expeditionary Force, played a crucial role in the Allied victory. While this history focuses primarily on first hand accounts of the men on the front line, Mead also provides a political and social analysis of the overall American war contribution. (WAR75, $19.95)
Durer • Martin Bailey ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1995 • PAPER • 128 PAGES A nicely illustrated overview of the Northern Renaissance artist, his engravings and woodcuts in the Color Library series by Phaidon. (GER132, $11.95)
Dvorak and His World • Michael Beckerman MUSIC • 1993 • PAPER • 296 PAGES This volume about the famed Czech composer is divided into two parts: the first is a collection of essays dealing with his relations to his country and other composers, while the second is a set of letters, early reviews, and other documents. Together, they provide an interesting view of his personal life and his influence on the world around him. (CZH23, $31.95)
Eastern Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt MAP A detailed travel map of Eastern Europe at a scale of 1:2,000,000 with the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow and the Black Sea. Place names are in the local language and Cyrillic. One Side. 49x34 inches. (EUR36, $14.95)
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 • Norman Stone HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 384 PAGES A classic study of Russia's contribution to the First World War. First published in 1975, before Soviet archives were opened, this work details the Russian defeat and how it affected the 1917 revolution. (WAR76, $16.95)
Effi Briest • Theodor Fontane • Peter Demetz LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 228 PAGES The best-known work (made into a Fassbinder movie) by the author who also wrote "A Man of Honor" and "The Eighteenth of March." Regarded by some as the Prussian novelist par excellence, Fontane was an astute observer of mores and conventions in late 19th-century Berlin and Brandenburg. This short, disurbing love story is set in Bismarck's Germany. (GER87, $15.00)
Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil • Hannah Arendt RELIGION • 2006 • PAPER • 312 PAGES A provocative, challenging account of the trial of the Nazi leader, which originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1963. This Penguin Classics edition includes Arendt's response to the controversy the book generated. (GEN255, $16.00)
Elizabeth and Her German Garden • Elizabeth Von Arnim BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • PAPER • 208 PAGES The gently satirical, light-hearted first book, told in the form of seasonal diary, by English novelist Countess von Arnhim, who also wrote "Enchanted April." Like all her books, this classic of life on an estate in Pomerania north of Berlin, was originally published under a pseudonym. A cousin of Katherine Mansfield and admired literary figure of her day, von Arnhim was later briefly married to the 2nd Earl Russell, brother of Bertrand Russell. Originally published in 1898, and brought back to life as a Virago Modern Classic. (GER72, $15.95)
The Engineer of Human Souls • Josef Skvorecky • Paul Wilson LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 592 PAGES This complex, entertaining novel centers on protagonist Danny Smiricky, a writer in exile, living and teaching in Canada after living under both the Nazis and the Communists. (CZH29, $16.95)
The Expressionists • Wolf-Dieter Dube ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1987 • PAPER • 216 PAGES This general survey of Expressionism is presented by Wolf-Dieter Dube, the senior curator at the Bavarian State Art Collection. With the use of many of the artists' own words, he tracks the movement back to such luminaries as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and follows it through its years of dazzling creativity. (GER56, $18.95)
Eyewitness Guide Berlin • Malgorzata Omilanowska GUIDEBOOK • 2012 • PAPER • 352 PAGES This superb guide to Berlin features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (GER74, $25.00)
Eyewitness Guide Munich & the Bavarian Alps • Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2012 • PAPER • 328 PAGES This comprehensive, illustrated guide is filled with excellent maps, hundreds of photographs and succinct overviews of history, culture and sightseeing. (GER119, $25.00)
Eyewitness Guide Vienna • Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • FLEXI-BOUND • 288 PAGES This superb guide to Vienna features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. An extensive timeline of Viennese history, suggested walks in the city, a chapter on day trips in the region, and helpful listings of accommodations, restaurants and shops are also included. (AST01, $23.00)
Fires of Hatred • Norman M. Naimark HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 248 PAGES This illuminating study focuses on five cases where genocide was a matter of government policy: The Armenians and Greeks of Anatolia; The Nazi Attack on the Jews; Soviet Deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars; The Expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia; and The Wars of Yugoslav Succession. Norman Naimark is director of Stanford's programs in International Relations and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. (EUR179, $24.00)
Five Germanys I Have Known • Fritz Stern HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 546 PAGES A history of modern Germany as seen through the life and experiences of Stern, a talented writer, professor of European history and former provost at Columbia University. The five Germanys are the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, postwar Germany, the divided Germany, and unified Germany since 1990. (GER173, $16.00)
Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps • Darwin Porter • Danforth Prince GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 256 PAGES A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions. (GER49, $16.99)
The Gallic War • Julius Caesar • Carolyn Hammond HISTORY • 2008 • PAPER • 260 PAGES Julius Caesar's autobiographical account of the Roman campaign against the Gauls, and the first invasions of Britain and Germany. (FRN498, $9.95)
German English Bilingual Visual Dictionary • DK Publishing LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 2005 • PAPER • 360 PAGES With thousands of neatly arranged color photographs, this compact book is impressively comprehensive, covering everything from the basics of die Schule (school) to the vocabulary of der Augenoptiker (optometrist). With a handy reference section in the back. (GER162, $14.95)
German, A Language Map • Kristine K. Kershul LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 1999 • PLASTIC CARD This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (GER165, $7.95)
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)
Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II • James Retallack HISTORY • 1996 • PAPER • 152 PAGES A concise, scholarly survey of the social, political and economic history of Germany, 1888-1918. James Retallack, a professor of history and German studies at the University of Toronto, looks too at the debate among historians of the period. (GER159, $39.00)
Germany in the High Middle Ages, 1050-1200 • Horst Fuhrmann HISTORY • 1992 • PAPER • 209 PAGES A masterly survey of 150 stormy years tracing German development through the first three crusades and the rise of the kingdom of Germany. Tightly written with useful chronologies of the various reigns from Heinrich IV to Lothar III, this volume connects events throughout Europe to developments in medieval Germany. It is an excellent introduction to a fascinating period in European history. (GER31, $48.00)
Germany, A New History • Hagen Schulze • Deborah Lucas HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 356 PAGES This accessible, nicely illustrated brief history traces the nation from its origins through the present. With 56 color and 59 black-and-white illustrations from the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Schulze, a professor at the Free University of Berlin, looks particularly at the emergence of a German identity. He's especially good in his portrait of the country in the last 40 years, arguing that today's Germany is very different from that of the early 20th century. (GER131, $25.00)
Germany, Benelux, Austria Czech Republic Map • Michelin Travel Publications 2012 • MAP A nicely detailed road map of west-central Europe from Amsterdam and Berlin to Brussels, Luxembourg, Munich, Salzburg and the Czech Republic at a scale of 1:1,000,000. One Side. 40x61 inches. (EUR100, $12.95)
The Golem • Gustave Meyrink LITERATURE • 2010 • PAPER • 190 PAGES The famous mystical, terrifying novel of the supernatural set in Prague's Jewish Ghetto in 1890. (CZH41, $11.99)
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War • Jaroslav Hasek • Cecil Parrott LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 752 PAGES The deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hasek demonstrated his wit in this classic novel of the Czech character and preposterous nature of war. This unabridged Penguin Classics edition, as translated by Cecil Parrott, includes the original illustrations by Josef Lada. (CZH11, $16.00)
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2005 • PAPER • 294 PAGES Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview. (EUR190, $21.95)
The Grooves of Change, Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium • J.F. Brown HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 248 PAGES A survey of the events from the fall of communism to 2000 by a leading scholar. Brown discusses social and political change in the region, prospects for the future -- and the growing economic rift between East Central and South Eastern Europe. (EUR90, $25.95)
The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire • Andrew Wheatcroft HISTORY • 1995 • PAPER • 384 PAGES The Habsburgs ruled over more diverse peoples and cultures than any other European dynasty since the Roman period. With skillful scholarship and engaging style, Wheatcroft reveals the history of this family of eccentric monarchs. (AST11, $17.00)
Hamburg Map • Borch Maps 2006 • MAP A nicely detailed city map of Hamburg at a scale of 1:10,500 with a second map showing the surrounding metropolitan area at a scale of 1:22,000.. Two Sides. 20x39 inches. (GER160, $7.95)
The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism • Tina Rosenberg CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1996 • PAPER • 437 PAGES In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. (EUR54, $17.95)
Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 256 PAGES This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people. (EUR189, $15.00)
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life • Sabina Flanagan BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1998 • PAPER • 256 PAGES The standard biography of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century Rhineland mystic. (GER115, $34.95)
Historical Atlas of Central Europe • Paul Mogocsi HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 232 PAGES An influential, authoritative survey of maps and shifting borders in the region from the Middle Ages until the present. With dozens of superb color maps illuminating the history and ethnic complexity of this bewildering part of the world. The atlas covers the region from Poland, Lithuania, and the eastern part of Germany to Greece and western Turkey and extends in time from the early fifth century to the present. (EUR33, $45.00)
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 • Stanley G. Payne HISTORY • 1996 • PAPER • 628 PAGES A scholarly, comprehensive history of fascism -- and other forms of ultra-nationalism -- with a focus on Europe between the World Wars, and especially Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. (EUR132, $24.95)
Hitler and the Holocaust • Robert S. Wistrich HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 295 PAGES A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II, cautioning that we must be always vigilant about intolerance. (EUR114, $15.00)
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, January 1933 • Henry Ashby Turner HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 155 PAGES Yale professor Henry Ashby Turner's fascinating examination of a pivotal moment in modern history, the series of events (taking place over one month) that led to the appointment of Hitler as German chancellor. (GER126, $16.00)
Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust • Daniel Jonah Goldhagen HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 624 PAGES Controversial, maddening and thoroughly researched, this study of what the German people did -- or did not do -- in reaction to the escalating horrors of World War II is a provocative contribution to Holocaust studies. (GER06, $17.95)
The Improbable Voyage • Tristan Jones TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 1998 • PAPER • 332 PAGES A personable sailor's yarn of a tough trip by water across Europe along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea. Jones, an inveterate Welsh sailor, adventurer and storyteller, tackles not only sailing, but also the people, politics and flavor of Eastern Europe circa 1985. Just in case, he flies the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales. This is the middle book in a series of three travel books that charts his 2,000-mile voyage across Europe on his on his 38-foot trimaran Outward Leg. (EUR156, $16.50)
In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 116 PAGES Mansfield's first published work, which pierces the bourgeoisie at a Bavarian spa town in 13 interconnected stories. Frau Fischer, the narrator, is wonderful -- and entertaining. The stories with titles like "Germans at Meat" and "The Baron" are sprinkled with snatches of self-incriminating dialogue. As a biographical note, Mansfield's proper mother sent her rebellious and pregnant daughter off to a guesthouse in Bad W�rishofen to have her child (which miscarried). This handsome paper edition is in the series of short works published by Herperus. (GER134, $13.95)
The Innocent • Ian McEwan LITERATURE • 1998 • PAPER • 256 PAGES As strange as anything Booker Prize-winning McEwan has ever written, this novel set in Berlin in the 1950s follows the fate of a reluctant British spy, an everyman caught up in espionage, a startling affair -- and murder. Based on actual events this psychological thriller is, among other things, steeped in the atmosphere of a divided Berlin. (GER43, $15.00)
A Jewish Mother From Berlin and Susanna • Gertrude Kolmar • Brigitte Goldstein LITERATURE • 1997 • HARD COVER • 202 PAGES Two works (a novella and a long short story) by a highly regarded German poet who perished at Auschwitz. Both set in 1920s Berlin, these stories reflect the society and culture of pre WWII Germany, foreshadowing the eruption of anti-semiticm and violence. (GER96, $28.33)
The Jews of Germany, A Historical Portrait • Ruth Gay • Peter Gay HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER A well written scholarly history of Judaism in Germany from the third century AD up through the Holocaust. Illustrated throughout, it tells of the monumental triumphs and tragedies faced by German Jews in the last two millennia. With a strong focus on Rhineland communites. (GER116, $40.00)
Johann Sebastian Bach, The Learned Musician • Christoph Wolff BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • PAPER • 624 PAGES Written by a Harvard professor, this biography of Bach is a detailed and entertaining journey into the life and music of the composer, as useful to the general reader as it is to music historians. (MUS24, $23.95)
The Joke • Milan Kundera LITERATURE • 1993 • PAPER • 336 PAGES In this novel a student in Communist Czechoslovakia is imprisoned when he sends a postcard to his girlfriend -- "Optimism is the opium of the masses! Long live Trotsky!" Years later, he comes up with a plan for revenge. (CZH36, $13.99)
Kafka's Milena • Jane Cerna • A. G. Brain • George Gibian BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1993 • PAPER • 205 PAGES Milena, who kept a long-term correspondence with Franz Kafka, was a legend a legend and household name in 1930s Prague. This is her biography, as written by her daughter. (CZH35, $18.00)
Kafka's Prague, A Travel Reader • Klaus Wagenbach GUIDEBOOK • 1996 • HARD COVER • 125 PAGES Cleverly organized as a city guide, this handsome volume takes the reader on a tour of Kafka's Prague. With period photos, memoirs and excepts from his writings, the Kafka lover or anyone interested in turn-of-the-century Prague will find this book a fascinating companion. Opening with a biography of the famous Czech author, the subsequent chapters are designed to give the reader a personal walking tour through the Prague Kafka knew best. An unusual alternative to the standard tour book format. (CZH03, $21.95)
The Kaiser and His Times • Michael Balfour HISTORY • 1972 • PAPER • 531 PAGES An eminently readable biography of William II, with a moderately pro-English bias. (GER83, $25.00)
The Kalevala • Keith Bosley LITERATURE • 2009 • PAPER • 679 PAGES This national epic of Finland, based on ancient heroic poetry, was a rallying flag for national aspirations as Finland struggled to break away from Russia in the 19th century. So important is this great literary monument that Finland celebrates February 28 as Kalevala day. Incorporating incantation and humor and including a role for magic, this classic informs some of Sibelius' greatest music. 1999 marks the 150th anniversary of the first edition of the poem. (SCN14, $15.95)
Konrad Adenauer, The Father of the New Germany • Charles Williams BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • HARD COVER • 624 PAGES A biography of Konrad Adenauer, comprehensive and multifaceted. It focuses on his long political career and his monumental influence on politics and government in 20th-century Germany. (GER117, $50.00)
Language and History in the Early Germanic World • D.H. Green HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 460 PAGES In this scholarly analysis, linguist D. H. Green traces the history and culture of Northern Europe to 900 A.D. with chapters on the Celts, Goths, Romans, Merovingian Franks and Anglo-Saxons. He draws on linguistic and phonetic evidence to show the collision of barbarian, classical, and Christian cultures in Germanic world in the rise of the early Middle Ages. (EUR181, $50.00)
Legacy • Sybille Bedford LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 384 PAGES Bedford draws on her own cosmopolitan, bohemian youth in this autobiographical novel set in Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany. She follows the intertwined fate of two families in the years leading up to WWI. (GER161, $16.95)
Life with a Star • Jiri Weil • Philip Roth LITERATURE • 1998 • PAPER • 208 PAGES A fictional account of the Holocaust told through the story of a young Czech Jew, the bank teller Roubicek. Philip Roth provides the introduction to this outstanding portrait of life in Nazi-occupied Prague. (CZH43, $19.00)
Living in Freedom. The New Prague • Mark Sommer TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 1994 • PAPER • 261 PAGES Based on Sommers's visits to Prague both before and after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, this portrait blends history, travel narrative and political commentary. (CZH26, $11.95)
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)
Lonely Planet Central Europe • Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 662 PAGES • BEST SELLER A comprehensive guide to Central Europe, including Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. It is a compact overview of the region, especially appropriate for the independent-minded traveler visiting several countries. With local and regional maps, a section of color photographs, and information on history, culture and attractions. (EUR94, $29.99)
Lonely Planet Czech and Slovak Republics • Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 488 PAGES In the hallmark Lonely Planet style, this practical guide to the Czech Republic and Slovakia features 95 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With color photographs and excellent travel information. (CZH07, $22.99)
Lonely Planet Germany • Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 816 PAGES A comprehensive guide in the Lonely Planet style featuring maps, background detail on the country and culture -- and practical information for the traveler. (GER102, $27.99)
Lonely Planet Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest • Andrea Schulte-Peevers GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 360 PAGES This practical guide to Bavaria and the Romantic Road features maps, an overview of culture, history and nature, and a good deal of nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. It includes a significant section on Munich, as well as outlying areas, such as Nuremberg and Regensberg. (GER150, $19.99)
Lonely Planet Prague • Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 282 PAGES A practical comprehensive guide to the city in the hallmark Lonely planet style. (CZH52, $18.99)
Making of the Middle Ages • Richard W. Southern HISTORY • 1953 • PAPER A classic history of 10th to 13th century Europe, covering culture, politics and major personalites. (EUR105, $21.00)
Mammals of Europe • Priscilla Barrett • David W. MacDonald FIELD GUIDE • 2002 • PAPER • 320 PAGES Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior. (FG61, $38.50)
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I, A Short Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails • Robert Musil • Sophie Wilkins • Burton Pike LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER The first volume in German author Robert Musil's unfinished epic masterpiece, set just before World War I in Vienna. Part of a two volume set restored with a new translation and including, for the first time in English, the complete existing text, it is the story of a former soldier who finds himself at the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The second volume is also available (AST38). (AST37, $23.00)
The Man Without Qualities: Volume II, Into the Millennium and from the Posthumous Papers • Robert Musil • Sophie Wilkins • Burton Pike LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER The second of two volumes in Musil's sprawling story of pre-World War I Vienna and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Musil died before he could complete the entire epic, but this new translation incorporates all the text he ever wrote. Volume I is also available (AST37). (AST38, $27.50)
Marsden Hartley, The Biography of an American Artist • Townsend Ludington BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1998 • PAPER • 325 PAGES A biography of the troubled modernist American painter from his childhood in Maine, to his life in Germany before World War I, on to his death in 1943. The artist's many homes, his struggles concerning his homosexuality and the progression of his work are all discussed, often using Hartley's own words. (USE185, $32.95)
Marsden Hartley: American Modern • Patricia McDonnell ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2007 • PAPER • 83 PAGES The work of modernist painter Marsden Hartley is illustrated in this short book. (USE186, $27.95)
Martin Luther, The Christian Between God and Death • Richard Marius BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2000 • PAPER • 542 PAGES A provocative biography of the German religious reformer focusing on the contradictions, passions and personality of the man and his ideas (including his preoccuparion with death and authority). (GER63, $24.00)
Medieval Art • Marilyn Stokstad ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2004 • PAPER • 446 PAGES Filled with hundreds of illustrations, this comprehensive survey of medieval art throughout Europe describes the social and cultural significance of many of the works of the period. (EUR91, $69.00)
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, A Novel in Five Stories • Gregor Von Rezzori LITERATURE • 2007 • PAPER • 287 PAGES Set against a backdrop of Central Europe between the wars, these five connected stories follow the fate of a young Romanian -- and his tense, vacillating relationship with Jews (including his own Jewish wife). Originally serialized in the New Yorker in 1969, it's a brilliant, disturbing book. Born in Bukovina in the Capathian mountains, Rezzori's many novels and essays address shifting notions of identity in Central Europe since WWI. (CEU27, $15.95)
Michelin Green Guide Germany • Michelin Travel Publications GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 576 PAGES A comprehensive driving guide to Germany in the Michelin series, featuring detailed local maps of each region, city or village. With suggested tours, site plans of major attractions and a rating system. An excellent planning guide, especially useful for the independent traveler. (GER157, $21.99)
Michelin Map Germany: Mideast 544 • Michelin 2008 • PAPER A detailed map of the Eastern Germany, from Berlin to the Czech Republic, at a scale of 1:300,000, including Thuringen, Sachsen and Brandenburg. With inset street plans of Dresden, Erfurt and Leipzig. (GER28, $12.95)
Michelin Map Germany: Southwest 545 • Michelin 2008 • PAPER A traveler's map of southwestern Germany, covering the western part of Bavaria, at a scale of 1:300,000. (GER129, $12.95)
National Geographic Prague and The Czech Republic • Stephen Brook GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 336 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the area's artistic, historical and cultural landmarks, complete with detailed maps and full-color photos. (CZH55, $26.95)
The New Bach Reader • Hans T. David • Christoph Wolff • Arthur Mendel MUSIC • 1999 • PAPER • 608 PAGES A comprehensive anthology of primary source documents on Bach. (GER137, $21.95)
New Poems (Bilingual Edition) • Rainer Maria Rilke • Edward Snow LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 320 PAGES The new poems in this collection are hardly new (they were written from 1907-1908), but they do show a stylistic shift in Rilke's approach to the poetic form, triggered by his time in Paris and his exposure to burgeoning art movements of the period. This is a bilingual edition, with the original German text alongside the English translation. (GER121, $16.00)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge • Rainer Maria Rilke • M. D. Herter Norton LITERATURE • 1972 • PAPER • 237 PAGES Rilke's only novel, a poetic and loosely structured series of meditations on the difficulties of living abroad, told in the voice of a Danish nobleman in Paris. (GER123, $13.95)
Nuremberg Map • Borch Maps 2000 • MAP A folded, laminated map of the city center of Nuremberg, at a scale of 1:20,000. (GER107, $7.95)
Nuremberg, Infamy on Trial • Joseph E. Persico HISTORY • 1995 • PAPER • 544 PAGES A narrative history of the Nazi war crime trials in Nuremberg, more a poignant portrayal of the numerous characters and events surrounding the proceedings than a collection of facts and political analysis. Written for a general audience, it is well informed and engrossing. (GER106, $17.00)
Oberammergau, The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play • James Shapiro HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 240 PAGES In 1634, when plague was threatening Bavaria, the citizens of the town of Oberammergau made a pledge that if their town were spared they would perform the Passion Play every ten years until the end of time. The town was spared, and the citizens have kept their promise. This book is a highly readable cultural history of the town, the play, and the often turbulent times both have faced, focusing much of its discussion on their relation to anti-semitism. (GER67, $13.00)
On Foot to the Golden Horn • Jason Goodwin TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2003 • PAPER • 278 PAGES An outstanding travel writer and journalist, Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria. (EUR81, $17.00)
Open Letters, Selected Writings: 1965 - 1990 • Vaclav Havel • Paul Wilson HISTORY • 1992 • PAPER • 405 PAGES This inspired anthology of writings by the Czech poet-president Vaclav Havel collects 25 essays, letters and speeches written between 1965 and 1990. The famous "Dear Mr. Husak" and "Power of the Powerless," writings that directly influenced the Polish Solidarity movement, are included along with a wealth of other works of inspiration. A moving record of an important contemporary reformer and the thoughts that fueled a revolution. (CZH06, $15.95)
Painting Porcelain in the Meissen Style • Uwe Geissler ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1997 • PAPER • 116 PAGES Step-by-step intructions on painting your own porcelain in the renowned Meissen tradition. Includes flower motifs, green grapevine decorations, and the classic onion pattern. (GER211, $24.99)
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe • Dennis Hupchick • Harold Cox HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 130 PAGES The changing borders and complex history of Eastern Europe as told through 52 maps and accompanying essays, organized chronologically. An excellent reference, the book shows the rise of Poland, changing borders of the Ottoman Empire, Hapsburgs and fate of Yugoslavia in admirable clarity. (EUR138, $21.95)
Plagues and Peoples • William McNeill HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 365 PAGES Wide-ranging, fascinating and well researched, this book traces the waves of epidemics that raged through Europe, particularly the famous Black Death of the 13th and 14th centuries. (EUR26, $17.00)
Prague Map • Borch Maps 2006 • MAP An easy-to-use, laminated, detailed map of the center of Prague at a scale of 1:10,000. The city's major attractions are clearly indicated and a street index is included. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (CZH13, $7.95)
Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten Dorp • Desiderius Erasmus LITERATURE • 1994 • PAPER • 188 PAGES This best-known, witty essay by the great Dutch humanist satirizes the excesses of the Catholic church, the piousness of aristocrats and the severity of school teachers. In "Letter to Maarten Dorp," Erasmus defends his anti-theological stance. The two works are key to understanding the origins of the Protestant Reformation and the largely secular art of the Northern Renaissance. (NTH44, $13.00)
The Radetzky March • Joseph Roth • Joachim Neugroschel LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 331 PAGES First published in 1932, this powerful novel spins a tale of three generations of the Trotta family set against the waning days of the Habsburg Empire. A neglected masterpiece, this translation captures the historical sweep, close observations and irony of the German original. (AST17, $16.95)
The Reader • Bernhard Schlink • Carol Brown Janeway LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 218 PAGES Originally published in Switzerland, this is the story of a man whose adolescent affair with an older woman returns to haunt him years later when he discovers her accused of a terrible crime at a trial related to Germany's Nazi past. (GER68, $13.95)
Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, A Social and Artistic Biography • Elise Polko MUSIC • 1990 • HARD COVER • 222 PAGES A modern reprint of a romantically written Mendelssohn memoir originally published in 1869 by one of the composer's contemporaries, Elise Polko, a German novelist, poet, and Mendelssohn devotee. (GEN168, $24.95)
Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Hessen Map • GeoCenter 2000 • MAP A regional map of Germany covering the Rhineland area from Trier east to Wurzburg and from Koblenz south almost to Stuttgart, at a scale of 1:200,000. Featuring Frankfurt, Mannheim and Luxembourg City, it shows where the Mosel, Neckar and Main Rivers meet the Rhine. Published in Germany. One Side. 39x56 inches. (GER152, $12.95)
The Rhine, Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe • Roland Recht CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2001 • HARD COVER • 360 PAGES A beautifully illustrated, oversize survey of the history, geography, culture, and sights along the river from its source in the Alps of Switzerland to the North Sea. Among the cities, towns and villages included are Strasbourg, Colmar, Cologne, Worms, and Heidelberg. Recht, a professor of art history in Strasbourg, has written widely on art and architecture, especially the Gothic art of the Rhine. (GER120, $75.00)
The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 • Mark Cioc • William Cronon HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 263 PAGES A scholarly, well-researched environmental history of the Rhine, particularly its role in European economic and national history over the last 200 years. Cioc, who documents the profound ecological degradation of the overburdened river, also devotes a chapter to hopeful signs of restoration. He does a good job of telling the story of the Rhine and the consequences of tinkering by hydrologists and engineers. Though the river flows through the heart of industrialized central Europe, it's less than 1,000 miles in length and now without much of the riverine vegetation and floodplains that once helped to keep it clean. (GER130, $24.95)
Richard Strauss and His World • Bryan Gilliam MUSIC • 1992 • PAPER • 444 PAGES A collection of scholarly essays compiled for a festival at Bard College, analyzing the composer's music and legacy. (MUS20, $52.50)
Rick Steves' German Phrase Book & Dictionary • Rick Steves LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 2008 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. This is no dry litany of phrases but is instead peppered with humor and Rick Steves' insider insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world. (GER125, $8.95)
Rick Steves' German Phrase Book & Dictionary • Rick Steves LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 2008 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. This is no dry litany of phrases but is instead peppered with humor and Rick Steves' insider insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world. (GER125, $8.95)
The Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers LITERATURE • 2011 • PAPER • 288 PAGES A tale of an unsuspecting member of the British Foreign Office who becomes enmeshed in a German plot to invade England. An early example of the spy story originally published in 1903, the book is memorably set on the North Sea coast near the Frisian Islands. Never mind its origins as British propaganda warning against the German threat, this fast-paced book is a classic. (GER60, $15.00)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany • William L. Shirer HISTORY • 1990 • PAPER • 1249 PAGES Journalist and historian William Shirer's masterwork, this bestseller is a copiously-researched, authoritative portrait of Nazi Germany. Shirer was on the scene in Central Europe from 1925 through the post-war period. (GER108, $29.99)
The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples • Herwig Wolfram • Thomas Dunlap HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 384 PAGES An authoritative, scholarly survey of the impact and interaction of the early Germanic peoples and the Holy Roman Empire. Wolfrum traces the origins of what is now the German people from Marcus Aurelius to early medieval Europe. (EUR61, $29.95)
Rough Guide Berlin • Rough Guide GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 416 PAGES These well-made, comprehensive British guides mix accurate practical information and in-depth cultural and historical background. Here they tackle Berlin, neighborhood-by-neighborhood. (GER124, $18.99)
Rough Guide Czech Republic • Rob Humphreys GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 464 PAGES A comprehensive, practical guide for the traveler in the British series. Much of the book is devoted to a survey of cities, sites and attractions throughout the Czech and Slovak republics. With helpful local maps, and a good survey of the culture and history of the region. (CZH25, $21.99)
Rough Guide Germany • Rough Guide GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 884 PAGES A comprehensive guide to Germany in the somewhat hip, literate and very infomative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly between practical information and illuminating background on culture and history. (GER65, $24.99)
Rough Guide Prague • Rob Humphreys • David Charap GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 348 PAGES A no-nonsense, opinionated travel guide to Prague aimed at independent-minded travelers. It includes maps, a good cultural and historical overview and a great bibliography. (CZH21, $19.99)
Sachsen Map • GeoCenter 2000 • MAP A detailed regional map of East-Central Germany at a scale of 1:200,000, which covers the route of the Elbe River in Saxony from Dessau to Dresden. One Side. 39x55 inches. (GER143, $12.95)
Saschen Map • Freytag & Berndt MAP A detailed road map of Saxony, including Dresden, Leipzig and the Elbe River, at a scale of 1:200,000. (GER154, $14.95)
Schindler's List • Thomas Keneally LITERATURE • 1993 • PAPER • 400 PAGES A landmark in literature about the Holocaust, this modern classic was made popular in Steven Spielberg's award-winning screen adaptation. It is the compelling story of the transformation of a Nazi tycoon and his rescue of 1,300 Jews from the concentration camps near Plaszow. (GER51, $16.00)
Short Stories in German, Erzahlungen Auf Deutsch • Ernst Zillekens LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 187 PAGES These eight short stories by modern writers, with parallel English translations offers students of German, at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature. (GER178, $15.00)
Slovak Republic Map • Freytag & Berndt MAP A colorful, detailed map of Slovakia at a scale of 1:200,000. One Side. 35x45 inches. (CEU19, $14.95)
The Sons: The Judgement, the Stoker, the Metamorphosis, and Letter to His Father • Franz Kafka LITERATURE • 1989 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A trio of Kafka's well-known short tales of family tragedy, presented together (as he originally envisioned them) along with a letter to his father. (CEU18, $12.95)
The Sorrows of Young Werther • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe LITERATURE • 1990 • PAPER • 224 PAGES Told through the letters of young German artist, Goethe's tragic, philosophical novel was a sensation in its day and even inspired an opera by Massenet. (GER140, $11.00)
Southern Germany Map • ITMB MAP A detailed color map of southern Germany from Bavaria to the Rheinland at a scale of 1:500,000. Includes Strasbourg. One Side. 33x54 inches. (GER29, $11.95)
Summer Meditations • Vaclav Havel • Paul Wilson BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1993 • PAPER • 180 PAGES The playwright-cum-statesman exhibits his intellectual and moral gravitas in this collection of thoughts on such topics as the responsibilities of independence, the moral foundation of society, and the future of the Czech Republic. (CZH33, $14.95)
The Thirty Years' War • Geoffrey Parker HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 316 PAGES Now in a revised edition, this scholarly history of the major European conflict of the 17th century includes contributions by 10 historians. Habsburgs, French, Danes, Dutch, Swedes and Spanish all participated in what was essentially a German civil war. Among the outcomes were the annexation of Alsace by France, the annexation of Pomerania by Sweden and the legalization of Calvinism in Germany. (EUR115, $39.95)
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen • Tadeusz Borowski • Barbara Vedder • Jan Kott BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1992 • PAPER • 180 PAGES A series of uninflected, austere stories, published in Polish after WWII -- and drawn from the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945. The stories, which caused a sensation upon publication, reflect the daily horrors in the camps. They stand as testimony to the will to survive. (GER95, $15.00)
Three Comrades • Erich Maria Remarque LITERATURE • 1998 • PAPER • 480 PAGES An excellent novel of World War I veterans Berlin in 1928 by the author of "All Quiet on the Western Front." (GER90, $25.00)
A Time of Gifts • Patrick Leigh Fermor TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2005 • PAPER • 384 PAGES • BEST SELLER Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk as a young man in 1933 across Europe. This first volume chronicles his trip from the Hook of Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube. The adventure continues in Between the Woods and Water, thankfully also reissued by NYRB. The books were written not by the young adventurer but the accomplished author 40 years later, adding perspective and a sweet nostalgia. (CEU30, $16.95)
The Tin Drum • Volker Schlondorff 1979 • DVD This adaptation of Gunter Grass's 1959 novel won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1980. It's the funny and touching story of Oskar Matzerath, a young boy living in a German mental hospital during the Nazi buildup before the start of WWII. Grass contributed additional dialogue to the film. Part of the Criterion Collection. (GER151, $39.95)
To Destroy a City, Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II • Herman Knell HISTORY • 2003 • HARD COVER • 464 PAGES A thoughtful account of the purpose and results of strategic bombing in war, written by a German historian who witnessed the destruction of his hometown of Wurtzberg at the end of World War II. (WAR110, $32.50)
The Trial, A New Translation Based on the Restored Text • Franz Kafka • Breon Mitchell LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER • 281 PAGES Kafka's chilling novel of an unjust trial in a totalitarian state, in which the defendant is never told who has charged him, or why. (CZH46, $14.00)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being • Milan Kundera LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 320 PAGES Kundera is celebrated for his lyricism and emotional intensity, and this novel exemplifies his very philosophical style. Praised for its meditations on life, the nature of men and women, and on the fearful emptiness of Eastern European life under Communist management, this book is an intriguing read. (CZH16, $14.99)
Wagner Without Fear, Learning to Love-And Even Enjoy-Opera's Most Demanding Genius • William Berger MUSIC • 1998 • PAPER • 464 PAGES Berger's delightful guide is invaluable in exploring the exotic world of opera's most controversial composer. Irreverent and readable, it helps to make Wagner accessible to even the greatest of skeptics. (GEN171, $16.95)
Wagner's Ring, Turning the Sky Round • M. Owen Lee MUSIC • 1994 • PAPER A concise introduction and analysis of Wagner's Ring Cycle by opera expert Father Owen Lee, expanded from the author's intermission talks during Met Opera broadcasts. (MUS30, $12.99)
The Walker's Literary Companion • Robert Gilbert • Anne Wallace • Jeffrey Robinson ANTHOLOGY • 2000 • HARD COVER • 352 PAGES A diverse sampling of literature on the pleasures of walking, representing philosophers, naturalists, outcasts, athletes and intellectuals from Plato to Frank O'Hara. (WLK08, $24.00)
Walking • Henry David Thoreau REFERENCE • 1994 • PAPER • 92 PAGES You may want to carry this small volume in your daypack for inspiration. In it, Thoreau offers his meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel. (WLK04, $9.99)
War Letters, Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice • Robert Kenner HISTORY • 2002 • DVD Produced for PBS, this hour-long documentary dramatizes letters home from the American Revolution to Persian Gulf, Directed by Robert Kenner and narrated by Joan Allen, Edward Norton, Bill Paxton, Giovanni Ribisi, David Hyde Pierce among others. (WAR77, $19.98)
Weimar Culture, The Outsider as Insider • Peter Gay HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 224 PAGES A seminal account of Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its vibrant artistic community. First published in 1968, Gay's extended essay covers musical, literary and fine arts traditions and their lasting legacy on the culture of the 20th century. (GER156, $14.95)
When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do • Hyde Flippo CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2002 • PAPER • 176 PAGES A humorous and helpful guide to getting along in Germany, informing travelers on everything from proper restaurant etiquette to how to behave in social situations and how best to appear like a local. It features a multiple choice quiz, with the answers to each question cross-referenced with short articles on German history, culture and society. (GER149, $15.95)
Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries • Ornella D'Alessio • Marco Santini FOOD • 2005 • HARD COVER • 324 PAGES Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary. The authors, both Italian journalists and wine connoisseurs, provide helpful tips alongside the hundreds of magnificent color photographs. (EUR191, $35.00)
A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age • William Manchester HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 322 PAGES In this wide-ranging study, Manchester evokes in vivid detail the great figures and daily life of the 16th century, with information on Henry VIII, Magellan, Borgia, da Vinci and Martin Luther. This is his 18th book and Manchester knows how to tell a great story. It's divided into three sections: Renaissance, Reformation and Discovery. (EUR06, $15.99)
The World Must Know, The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum • Michael Berenbaum HISTORY • 2005 • PAPER • 250 PAGES A powerfully illustrated popular history of the Holocaust drawing on eyewitness accounts, artifacts, and archives from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. (EUR133, $29.95)
Yanks, The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I • Joanne Thompson Eisenhower • John S.D. Eisenhower HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 368 PAGES Eisenhower reconsiders the role of American involvement in WWI, arguing that General Pershing and the men of the AEF were responsible for turning the tide of war towards victory. (WAR78, $23.95)

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