The Nazi Occult

Written by Kenneth Hite
Illustrated by Darren Tan

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-78096-598-7 (1-78096-598-2)

In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. Ordered by Hitler to discover new weapons that he could unleash on his enemies, the occultists experimented with dark magics, mystical artifacts, and creatures thought only to exist... Read more >

I Wish I'd Been There (R)
Book Two: European History
Edited by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K. Rabb

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27764-0 (0-307-27764-X)

“What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed-and why?”

In this companion to I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events that Changed America, some of our finest historical writers now turn their attention to Europe, with lively and... Read more >

Apollo's Angels
A History of Ballet
Written by Jennifer Homans

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6874-3 (0-8129-6874-3)

Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Named one of “The 10 Best Books of 2010” by the editors of the New York Times Book Review
A 2011 Choice "Outstanding Academic Title"
A 2012 American Library Association Notable Book for Adults (Nonfiction)

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has... Read more >

Searching for Schindler
A memoir
Written by Thomas Keneally

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52617-3 (0-385-52617-2)

This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world.

Thomas Keneally met Leopold... Read more >

I Will Bear Witness
A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
Written by Victor Klemperer

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 15, 1999
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75378-7 (0-375-75378-8)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant... Read more >

I Will Bear Witness
A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945
Written by Victor Klemperer

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 3, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75697-9 (0-375-75697-3)

Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's Germany. Volume Two begins in 1942... Read more >

The Hitler of History

Written by John Lukacs

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70113-9 (0-375-70113-3)

"A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the center of a crucial historical debate over... Read more >

Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-496-2 (1-59051-496-3)

Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before... Read more >

The Glass Room

Written by Simon Mawer

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-396-5 (1-59051-396-7)

A 2009 Best Book by The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, London Evening Standard, The Observer, and Slate.com

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von... Read more >

Hitler's Armies
A history of the German War Machine 1939-45
Edited by Chris McNab

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-84908-647-9 (1-84908-647-8)

The definitive work on Hitler’s war machine, charting its evolution from the formidable force which won stunning victories during the Blitzkrieg in 1940, to the hard campaigns it fought in the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastelands of the Soviet Union to the eventual retreat to the Fatherland itself... Read more >

Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't
The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
Written by Ulrike Meinhof
Preface by Elfriede Jelinek
Afterword by Bettina Rohl
Edited by Karin Bauer
Translated by Luise Von Flotow

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-831-9 (1-58322-831-4)

No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like Ulrike Meinhof, who formed, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader—Meinhof Gang, notorious for its bombings and kidnappings of the wealthy in the 1970s. But in the years leading up to... Read more >

Killing Hitler
The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Written by Roger Moorhouse

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38255-6 (0-553-38255-1)

Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just... Read more >

Soldaten
On Fighting, Killing, and Dying
Written by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $30.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-95812-9 (0-307-95812-4)

In 2001, spurred by a nagging curiosity over a transcript of a secretly recorded conversation he had come across in his research on the German U-boat wars, historian Sönke Neitzel paid a visit to the British national archives. He had heard of the existence of recorded interrogations of German POWs, but... Read more >

The Lady in Gold
The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Written by Anne-Marie O'Connor

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26564-7 (0-307-26564-1)

The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and... Read more >

Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-0-385-52719-4 (0-385-52719-5)

"Written with impressive talent and suspense, this true story will appeal to many." --Elie Wiesel

Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France... Read more >

The Anatomy of Fascism

Written by Robert O. Paxton

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3391-1 (1-4000-3391-8)

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up... Read more >

Anne Frank's Family
The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos
Written by Mirjam Pressler

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-73941-4 (0-307-73941-4)

This fascinating history of Anne Frank and the family that shaped her is based on a treasure trove of thousands of letters, poems, drawings, postcards, and photos recently discovered by her last surviving close relative, Buddy Elias, and his wife, Gerti.

As children, Anne and her cousin Buddy were very close; he... Read more >

Hitler's Charisma
Leading Millions into the Abyss
Written by Laurence Rees

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37729-6 (0-307-37729-6)

Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive figure to millions of... Read more >

Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Written by Richard Rhodes

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70822-0 (0-375-70822-7)

In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen—the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union, early in World War II, by Himmler’s SS. And he shows how these squads were utilized as the Nazis made two... Read more >

Hitler's Private Library
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45526-0 (0-307-45526-2)

With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race

In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.

Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but... Read more >

German Boy
A Child in War
Written by Wolfgang Samuel

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0824-5 (0-7679-0824-4)

As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strassburg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp... Read more >

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
Politics and Culture
Written by Carl E. Schorske

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 12, 1980
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74478-0 (0-394-74478-0)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

This is Schorske's magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.

"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an... Read more >

Albert Speer
His Battle with Truth
Written by Gitta Sereny

Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76812-8 (0-679-76812-2)

Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now, this enigma of a man is unveiled... Read more >

Oberammergau
The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Written by James Shapiro

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70852-7 (0-375-70852-9)

The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the menace of Jewry, and in... Read more >

Gold and Iron

Written by Fritz Stern

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1979
Price: $17.56
ISBN: 978-0-394-74034-8 (0-394-74034-3)

Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award
Nominated for the National Book Award

"An invaluable contribution to our understanding of Germany in the second half of the 19th century" (The Washington Post), Gold and Iron portrays for the first time the close ties between Bismarck and his Jewish banker, Gerson Bleichroder, and the social... Read more >