How Hitler Could Have Won World War II
The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat
Written by Bevin Alexander

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-609-80844-3 (0-609-80844-3)

Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's... Read more >

The File
A Personal History
Written by Timothy Garton Ash

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77785-4 (0-679-77785-7)

"An invaluable document for our time, bravely and beautifully written.  A chilling portrait of treachery and compromise that will not let me go."--John le Carré

In 1978, fresh out of Oxford, Timothy Garton Ash set out for Berlin to see what he could learn from the divided city about freedom and despotism. As... Read more >

History of the Present
Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
Written by Timothy Garton Ash

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72762-7 (0-375-72762-0)

The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new Europe would look like. Now we know. Most of Western Europe has launched into the unprecedented... Read more >

In Europe's Name
Germany and the Divided Continent
Written by Timothy Garton Ash

Format: Trade Paperback, 700 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 1, 1994
Price: $29.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75557-9 (0-679-75557-8)

"Among the most important books on recent international history...An immense research effort"—The New York Times Book Review

"A subtle account of German policy toward the East over the past quarter century, elegantly written and suffused with...original insights."—The New York Review of Books Read more >

Leni
The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Written by Steven Bach

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38775-2 (0-307-38775-5)

Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know... Read more >

Nazism and War

Written by Richard Bessel

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7557-4 (0-8129-7557-X)

The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >

Hitler's U-Boat War
The Hunters, 1939-1942
Written by Clay Blair

Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64032-5 (0-679-64032-0)

"His monumental work...is the most thorough study of the U-boat campaign available." --Library Journal

Hitler's U-boat War is an epic sea story about the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-boat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles in... Read more >

What's to Become of the Boy?
Or, Something to Do with Books
Written by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Leila Vennewitz
Introduction by Anne Applebaum

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-001-3 (1-61219-001-4)

A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany

What’s to Become of the Boy? is a spirited, insightful, and wonderfully sympathetic memoir about life during wartime written with the characteristic brilliance by one of the 20th-century’s most celebrated authors. It is both an essential autobiography of the... Read more >

The Dark Valley
A Panorama of the 1930s
Written by Piers Brendon

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70808-4 (0-375-70808-1)

In this sweeping history, distinguished historian Piers Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life.

Like the classic work of Barbara Tuchman, The Dark Valley captures the vast scope of history as well as the minutia of everyday life, rendering a huge topic comprehensible and creating a gripping... Read more >

My Father's Country
The Story of a German Family
Written by Wibke Bruhns

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9670-1 (1-4000-9670-7)

In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century.

On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in... Read more >

Hitler and Stalin
Parallel Lives
Written by Alan Bullock

Format: Trade Paperback, 1152 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-72994-5 (0-679-72994-1)

A dual biography of the two most destructive figures of our century, Hitler and Stalin examines its subjects' origins and personalities, traces the arc of their careers, analyzes the methods by which they seized and clung to power, and assesses the scars they left on their world with a clarity and... Read more >

The Warburgs
The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Written by Ron Chernow

Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 23, 1994
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74359-0 (0-679-74359-6)

Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and later, German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for anti-Semitism... Read more >

Pack of Thieves
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History
Written by Richard Z. Chesnoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72064-9 (0-385-72064-5)

It was the largest organized robbery in history—the detailed, systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and most of the nations of Europe: Axis, Allied, and neutral. Now, for the first time, prizewinning journalist Richard Z. Chesnoff details the full scope of this monumental theft of money, gold, jewels, art... Read more >

Translating America
An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920
Written by Peter Conolly-Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-287-4 (1-58834-287-5)

At the turn of the century, New York City’s Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World... Read more >

The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships
Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg
Written by Harold Dick and Douglas Robinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 226 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: December 17, 1992
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-219-7 (1-56098-219-5)

Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports, recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at the Zeppelin Company in Germany, from 1934 through 1938, Harold G. Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. Against the background of German secretiveness, especially during the Nazi period... Read more >

Rena's Promise
A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Written by Rena Kornreich Gelissen and Heather Dune Macadam

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 30, 1996
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7071-0 (0-8070-7071-8)

As a young woman, Rena Kornreich endured the Nazi death camps for almost three and a half years. Rena’s Promise, the remarkable story of her survival, shows how her relationship with her younger sister, Danka, gave her the will to persevere under unimaginable circumstances.

“Gelissen, who was on the first Jewish transport... Read more >

Saints and Villains

Written by Denise Giardina

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 9, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-00427-2 (0-449-00427-9)

In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let along secular sainthood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister was the exception. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in a failed plot to... Read more >

Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Written by Gluckel

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: December 27, 1987
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0572-5 (0-8052-0572-1)

Translated by Marvin Lowenthal and with an  Introduction by Robert Rosen. Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory and promoted the welfare of her... Read more >

The Nuremberg Interviews

Written by Leon Goldensohn

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3043-9 (1-4000-3043-9)

During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn—a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army—monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately—one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany—made them available to the... Read more >

Hitler's Willing Executioners
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77268-2 (0-679-77268-5)

With an Afterword to the 1997 Vintage paperback edition.  This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive... Read more >

Eva Braun
Life with Hitler
Written by Heike B. Gortemaker
Translated by Damion Searls

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74260-5 (0-307-74260-1)

From one of Germany’s leading young historians, the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun, Hitler’s devoted mistress, finally wife, and the hidden First Lady of the Third Reich.

In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike Görtemaker reveals Hitler’s mistress as more than just a vapid blonde whose concerns... Read more >

Eva Braun
Life with Hitler
Written by Heike B. Gortemaker
Translated by Damion Searls

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59582-9 (0-307-59582-X)

The first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun: an authoritative reassessment of her role in Hitler’s life, which gives us, as well, an astonishingly revealing portrait of Hitler and his inner circle.

In this groundbreaking book, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker reveals the real woman behind the myth of the vapid blonde with... Read more >

Justice at Dachau
The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Written by Joshua Greene

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0879-5 (0-7679-0879-1)

The Nuremberg trials, which brought charges against top Nazi brass after World War II, have been well documented, but few know of the courtroom drama that unfolded sixty-five miles south at Dachau. The trial held there found individual concentration camp workers, hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors, personally responsible for... Read more >

Dead Funny
Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-130-0 (1-61219-130-4)

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed

Hitler and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring says, “Why don’t you jump?”

When a woman told this joke in Germany in... Read more >

The Struggle for Europe
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present
Written by William I. Hitchcock

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49799-2 (0-385-49799-7)

From the ashes of World War II to the advent of the Euro, the definitive history of the postwar rebirth of Europe by one of our finest young historians.

After a century of war, genocide, and ideological rivalry, Europe has at last emerged as a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy and... Read more >