Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

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It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she
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Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

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It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last 1000 years. Instead it lasted only 12, but into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation had ever known.
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Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

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Film tie in edition of an international bestseller coming to NZ cinemas in March The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read this book, you
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Fatherland

by Robert Harris

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It is 1964 and preperations are underway in Berlin for the 75th birthday celebrations of Adolf Hitler. For it is indeed a very different Berlin to the one we know today - a city dominated by the huge triumphal arches and monolithic constructions of Hitlers architect Albert Speer, and the centre of a vast third Reich that spreads from the Rhine to the Urals under Hitler's thrall. Xavier March is a
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Inside The Third Reich

by Albert Speer

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Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state. Photos & illustrations.
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Night

by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel and Marion Wiesel

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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel "Night" is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantiv
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans And The Holocaust

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

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Drawing principally on materials unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Daniel Goldhagen marshals new primary evidence to show that ordinary Germans were involved in the atrocities against the Jews during the Nazi regime.
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Klemperer Diaries

by Victor Klemperer

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The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends. Throughout, he remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate, and convinced that each successive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gent
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Klemperer Diaries

by Victor Klemperer

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"A publishing sensation in Germany, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden."
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Hitler 1936 To 1945: Nemesis

by Ian Kershaw

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Following the enormous success of Hitler: Hubris this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation and endin
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Stones From The River

by Ursula Hegi

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Stones from the Riveris a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after Wor
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution In Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

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Widely reviewed and read in hardcover, this is the shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. "Browning tells us about such Germans and helps us understand . . . how they were transformed psychologically . . . into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history".--New York Times Book Review, front
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Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

by Ian Kershaw

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From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century. Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings u
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Tin Drum

by Grass G

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The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissectionof the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
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Diary Of Anne Frank

by Anne Frank

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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their w
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Life In The Third Reich

by Richard Bessel

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Even today, the Third Reich--the regime that instigated the most destructive war in modern history--evokes powerful images of fascination and horror. Yet how were the lives of the ordinary German people of the 1930s and '40s affected by the politics of Hitler and his followers? Looking beyond the catalog of events, this intriguing book reveals that daily German life involved a complex mixture of b
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12-Year Reich: A Social History Of Nazi Germany 1933-1945

by Richard Grunberger

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The 12-year Reich, the first comprehensive social study of the Third Reich, shows what the Nazi regime proffered as the 'ideal' society and how the German people responded. Along with the violence, corruption, persecution, public extravaganzas, the ever-present Party, and the cult of the Fuhrer, a ghastly irritation of ordinary life went on.
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Third Reich In Power, 1933-1939: How The Nazis Won Over The Hearts And Minds Of A Nation

by Richard J. Evans

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The Third Reich in Power examines how it was possible for a group of ideological obsessive to remould a society famous for its sophistication and complexity into a one-party state directed at war and race hate. Richard J. Evans shows how the Nazis won over the hearts and minds of German citizens, twisted science, religion and culture, and transformed the economy, education, law and order to achiev
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Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth

by Gitta Sereny

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Schindler's Ark

by Thomas Keneally

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In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mer
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