9 Best historical books like Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner

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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop…

If you liked the historical plot in Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

By: Mary Elise Sarotte

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announc… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history

2. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

By: Anonymous , Philip Boehm , Hans Magnus Enzensberger

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian … read more

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3. The German War: A Nation Under Arms

By: Nicholas Stargardt

4.34

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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4. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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5. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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6. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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7. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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9. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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10. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Februar 33: Der Winter der Literatur

By: Uwe Wittstock

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Es ging rasend schnell. Der Februar 1933 war der Monat, in dem sich auch für die Schriftsteller in … read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

Similar categories in Harald Jähner's Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 book and Harald Jähner's Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

  • german literature
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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13. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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14. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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15. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

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16. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

By: Frank Dikötter

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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18. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

By: Roger Moorhouse

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World W… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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19. Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

By: Volker Ullrich

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough kno… read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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20. Ungleich vereint

By: Steffen Mau

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Die Diskussion über Ostdeutschland und das Verhältnis zwischen Ost und West flammt immer wieder auf… read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
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21. Het jaar van Caroline, Pieter en Geert (Dutch Edition)

By: Joost Vullings

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Een uitzonderlijk jaar in de Nederlandse politiek door de ogen van twee insiders Van de makers van… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

15 Best audiobook books like Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner

Transform Your Habits

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Gary J. Bass

4.29

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15 Best audiobook books like A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

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