Berlin
Top 10 Berlin
: The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Every Man Dies Alone, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, Emil and the Detectives, The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin, Fatherland, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Silesian Station, All That I Am
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,...
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international...
| Author | Hans Fallada |
| ISBN | 1933633638 |
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin,...
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0307408841 |
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced...
| Author | Erich Kästner |
| ISBN | 0099413124 |
If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she'd never have let him go.
Unfortunately, when his seven pounds goes missing on the train, Emil is determined to get it back - and when he teams up with the detectives he meets in Berlin, it's just the start of...
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
| ISBN | 0811200701 |
A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of...
| Author | Robert Harris |
| ISBN | 0061006629 |
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.
Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March...
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend Effi is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him safely stay in Berlin with Effi and his son, but...
| Author | Anna Funder |
| ISBN | 0062077562 |
All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places.
When eighteen-year-old Ruth Becker visits her cousin Dora in Munich in 1923, she meets the...
| 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 | Timur Vermes |
| ISBN | 3847905171 |
Sommer 2011. Adolf Hitler erwacht auf einem leeren Grundstück in Berlin-Mitte. Ohne Krieg, ohne Partei, ohne Eva. Im tiefsten Frieden, unter Tausenden von Ausländern und Angela Merkel. 66 Jahre nach seinem vermeintlichen Ende strandet der Gröfaz in der Gegenwart und startet gegen jegliche...
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
| Author | Christiane F. |
| ISBN | 3453162897 |
Sie ist heute sechzehn, kam mit zwölf in einem evangelischen Jugendheim zum Haschisch, mit dreizehn in einer Diskothek zum Heroin. Sie wurde süchtig, ging morgens zur Schule und nachmittags mit ihren ebenfalls heroinabhängigen Freunden auf den Kinderstrich am Bahnhof Zoo, um das Geld für die...
| Author | Bertolt Brecht |
| ISBN | 1559702524 |
The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic...
Die Känguru-Chroniken: Ansichten eines vorlauten Beuteltiers
| Author | Marc-Uwe Kling |
| ISBN | 3548372570 |
»Ich bin ein Känguru - und Marc-Uwe ist mein Mitbewohner und Chronist. Nur manches, was er über mich erzählt, stimmt. Zum Beispiel, dass ich mal beim Vietcong war. Das Allermeiste jedoch ist übertrieben, verdreht oder gelogen! Aber ich darf nicht meckern. Wir gehen zusammen essen und ins Kino,...
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous...
| Author | Brian Ladd |
| ISBN | 0226467627 |
In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing...
| Author | Alexandra Richie |
| ISBN | 0786706813 |
Berlin - called the Schicksal Stadt Deutschlands, the City of German Destiny - has been at the heart of the most important events of not only Germany, but also modern Europe. In this powerful historical narrative, Oxford historian Alexandra Richie follows Berlin from its Medieval foundation to the...
Fabian: Die Geschichte eines Moralisten
| Author | Erich Kästner |
| ISBN | 3423110066 |
Erich Kästner kennen viele nur als Autor von Kinder- und Jugendbüchern. Dass er auch zeitkritische Romane geschrieben hat, wissen die wenigsten. Der Roman Fabian entstand 1931 und beschreibt den moralischen und geistigen Verfall inmitten schwieriger politischer Verhältnisse. Für Kästner...
| 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...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0811216748 |
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells...
| Author | Andreas Steinhöfel |
| ISBN | 3551581126 |
Er war, so scheint es ihm, von Anfang an das egalste Kind der Welt. Das traurigste ... Das sprachloseste ... Dann, eines Morgens vor der U-Bahn, erhält Max von einem einarmigen Bettler ein unglaubliches Geschenk Und ein goldenes Ticket, mit dem er an Orte reisen kann, wo nur wenige hinkommen: die Refugien....
| Author | Anne Nelson |
| ISBN | 1400060001 |
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals,...
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
| Author | Cornelius Ryan |
| ISBN | 0684803291 |
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich.
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat...
| Author | Jonathan Littell |
| ISBN | 0061353450 |
Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times of London "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in...
| Author | Marc-Uwe Kling |
| ISBN | 3548373836 |
Sie sind wieder da – das kommunistische Känguru und der stoische Kleinkünstler! Auf der Jagd nach dem höchstverdächtigen Pinguin rasen sie durch die ganze Welt. Spektakuläre Enthüllungen! Skandale! Intrigen! Ein Mord, für den sich niemand interessiert! Eine Verschwörung auf niedrigster...
| Author | Klaus Mann |
| ISBN | 0140189181 |
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...
| Author | Theodor Fontane |
| ISBN | 3150076358 |
In seinem satirisch-humorvollen Gesellschaftsroman "Frau ]enny Treibel", der 1892 veröffentlicht wurde, entlarvt Fontane die Hauptfiguren in ihren egoistischen Intrigen deutlich genug als sentimental, dünkelhaft oder bieder-pragmatisch. Dennoch kann man schmunzelnd Sympathie gegenüber...
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)
| Author | Luisa Weiss |
| ISBN | 0670025380 |
“Luisa has a way of telling a story that’s nothing short of entrancing.” —Deb Perelman, author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Chocolate and Zucchini. 101 Cookbooks. The Julie/Julia Project. In the early days of food blogs, these were the pioneers whose warmth and recipes turned...
| Author | Theodor Fontane |
| ISBN | 3150089719 |
Die Geschichte spielt im Berlin der 1870er Jahre. Die hübsche und pflichtbewusste Lene wohnt mit ihrer alten Pflegemutter Nimptsch in einem kleinen Häuschen. Bei einer Bootspartie lernt sie den gesellschaftlich gewandten und unterhaltsamen Baron Botho von Rienäcker kennen. Im Laufe des Sommers...
It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.
It...
| Author | Simon Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0312632142 |
A compelling thriller laced with Simon Tolkien's signature writing style.
It’s September of 1940. France has fallen and London is being bombed day and night. Almost single-handedly Winston Churchill maintains the country’s morale. Britain’s fate hangs in the balance and the intelligence...
Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1896597297 |
Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events...
| Author | Ilse Koehn |
| ISBN | 0140342907 |
I'm not sure when I read this only that it was before I read the diary of anne frank & it moved me in an unusually stark & horrific way. I was so distraught by this book that I read pre-7th grade, that I made my Daddy read it as I considered him an expert on all things German & wanted him to tell me it...
| Author | Klaus Kordon |
| ISBN | 3407788029 |
Meeslepende en complete jeugdroman over de laatste oorlogsmaanden en de eerste vredesweken in Berlijn (februari-mei 1945) a.d.h.v. het twaalfjarige meisje Anne, haar familie en buren. Alles komt aan bod: de zware bombardementen, de brute Russische verkrachtingen en plunderingen, de ramp in...
| Author | Irmgard Keun |
| ISBN | 1892746816 |
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature,...
