Speer: The Final Verdict
By: Joachim Fest
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A portrait of Germany's World War II Armaments Minister considers his rise from unemployed architec…
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1. The Oppermanns
By: Lion Feuchtwanger , Ruth Gruber , James Cleugh
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Opper… read more
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- germany
- holocaust
2. Our Friends from Frolix 8
By: Philip K. Dick
3.57
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely conc… read more
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"I am life,’ the girl said. ‘What?’ he said, startled. ‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I’m life and when you’re …"-Philip K. Dick, Our Friends from Frolix 8
3. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.08
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more
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"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
4. The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more
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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
6. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
7. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
8. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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9. The Sign of Four
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more
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10. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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11. Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
By: Andrew Nagorski
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
Hitler's rise to power, Germany's march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans--diplom… read more
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- nonfiction
- germany
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12. The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
By: Boris Johnson
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped… read more
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13. The Last Days of Hitler
By: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper
3.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. HHhH
By: Laurent Binet
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Deux parachutistes tchecoslovaques envoyes par Londres sont charges d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich,… read more
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15. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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16. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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17. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more
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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
18. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
By: David de Jong
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more
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19. Speer: The Final Verdict
By: Joachim Fest
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A portrait of Germany's World War II Armaments Minister considers his rise from unemployed architec… read more
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- european history
- holocaust
20. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution
By: Richard Breitman
3.72
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking… read more
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- biography
- germany
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