Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history - a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching 'instant history' unfold live on air - the book presents a ne ...more on ebook "Image Critique and the Fall of the ..."

Beautiful Jim Key -- the one-time ugly duckling of a scrub colt who became one of the most beloved heroes of the turn of the century -- was adored not for his beauty and speed but r ...more on ebook "Beautiful Jim Key..."

Letters Home is a unique account of daily life for a military family living in Occupied Germany as they experienced the aftermath of World War II and the dawning of the Cold War. Thr ...more on ebook "Letters Home..."

This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, bar ...more on ebook "Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts..."

Let's be Frank - Die unglaubliche Geschichte des heimlichen Kaisers von Österreich. ...more on ebook "Let's be Frank - Die unglaubliche G..."

When Bast picks up Trick, a street hustler with few prospects, Trick is prepared to play along, to have some fun. What he's not prepared for is falling in love. Good thing for him the obsess ...more on ebook "The Agricola and the Germany of Tac..."

How was the Holocaust possible? How did it unfold? What is its legacy? The study of human history offers no more urgent questions. In the course of this landmark work, Robert Wistrich brings ...more on ebook "Hitler and the Holocaust..."

In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He woul ...more on ebook "My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul..."

Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of our century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, Charles Maier recounts the history and demise of East ...more on ebook "Dissolution: The Crisis..."

In 1992 the files of East Germany's infamous Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, were made publicly available. The revelations from these documents sparked feuds old and new among a popu ...more on ebook "Narratives of Guilt and Compliance ..."