The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
10 best books like The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Brian Ladd): The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Germany: Memories of a Nation, The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933, Berlin, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One, Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
| Author | Frederick Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060786132 |
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became...
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
| Author | Peter Watson |
| ISBN | 0060760222 |
The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy,...
| Author | Otto Friedrich |
| ISBN | 0060926791 |
A superb "survey" of Berlin in the 20s by a writer who
appreciates the fantasticalities of the era. It encompasses
everyone fr Fritz Lang to Marlene to Grosz and Hitler's niece
Geli Raubal, the murdered Walther Rathenau and aesthete Harry Kessler. The torchlight parades begin, the candles...
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1481506242 |
A major new series from the makers of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," exploring the fascinating and complex history of Germany from the origins of the Holy Roman Empire right up to the present day. Written and presented by Neil MacGregor, it is produced by BBC Radio 4, in partnership with the British...
| Author | Peter Schneider |
| ISBN | 0226739414 |
"Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
When the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation...
| Author | Joseph Roth |
| ISBN | 0393325822 |
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible...
In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the...
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating...
Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: respectively, the most influential English-language novel and poem of the century. To this day, these two works...
| Author | Max Egremont |
| ISBN | 0374533563 |
Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border...
| Author | Peter Gay |
| ISBN | 0393322394 |
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's...
| Author | Detlev J.K. Peukert |
| ISBN | 0809015560 |
The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar...
| Author | Franz Hessel |
| ISBN | 3942476118 |
”To date, perhaps Berlin hasn’t really been loved enough…”
Oh to be a flâneur! I love the idea of spending my days absorbing a city’s idiosyncrasies and its vibe and energy, then putting pen to paper to share my bon mots.
Alas, there seem to be no vacancies for a flâneur,...
| Author | Cees Nooteboom |
| ISBN | 0857050273 |
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification....
The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-1990
| Author | Mary Fulbrook |
| ISBN | 0195075706 |
Covering all major aspects of German history from the Weimar Republic through reunification, this new textbook offers a remarkably rich, insightful survey of a difficult and controversial subject. It integrates East German history more fully than competing texts, offering a precisely nuanced...
| Author | Fritz Stern |
| ISBN | 0374530866 |
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar...
| Author | Jana Hensel |
| ISBN | 1586482661 |
Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its...
| Author | Svetlana Boym |
| ISBN | 0465007082 |
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist...
| Author | William I. Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0385497997 |
From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement...
Tor!: The Story of German Football
| Author | Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger |
I love love LOVE this book! It is an absolute essential for a German football fan, particularly for me because this book retells the story from the beginning until right when I saw the Jungs for the first time: World Cup 2002. Like every good story, German football has its ups and downs, but Hesse-Lichtenberger...
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation
Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under...
| Author | Peter Fritzsche |
| ISBN | 0674027930 |
On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler's assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, "We are the losers, definitely the losers." Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, "hate is sown a million-fold." Yet in March...
| Author | Uwe Timm |
| ISBN | 3423133163 |
In Toni Morrisons Roman Menschenkind geistert ein Opfer der Sklaverei noch Jahre später am Ort des Geschehens herum. Auch Uwe Timms älterer Bruder spukt Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod durch dessen Träume. Nur, dass er zu den Tätern zählt -- anfänglich. Als Angehöriger der SS-Totenkopf-Division...
