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Deutschland, Deutschland

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News that Angela Merkel’s secured a fourth term as Germany’s Chancellor cements her position as Europe’s most experienced leader, and the de-facto voice of reason in global politics. But Germany has an intriguing, fractured past – which is reflected in books written in it, and about it.
    internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland3 years ago
    In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African-American athlete won a staggering four Olympic gold medals. Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers, had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.
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    internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland3 years ago
    This unflinching exploration of love and marriage from both sides encourages the reader’s non-judgemental reflection on a widower and his deceased wife.
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      internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland4 years ago
      In this authentic East German tragi-comedy, dance with Gabriela, the daughter of a famous surgeon and a society hostess, as she recounts the failures that have left her living under a canal bridge.
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        internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland4 years ago
        A fictionalised memoir capturing West Germany in the early sixties through the eyes of a seven-year-old East German refugee with an abusive father, emotionally absent mother, a copy of H.G. Wells’s ‘The Time Machine’ and a globe — illuminated.
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        internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland4 years ago
        Crossing paths on the streets of Berlin, 10th June 1927, a host of historical figures and a cast of invented, interwar, everyday people come to life amidst the rising tide of populism.
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        internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland5 years ago
        Surveying the structural demands of his professional life, the architecture of immigration and the foundations of his own relationship, a young Irish engineer builds a new life in Germany.
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        internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland6 years ago
        An American DJ in Berlin. Doubletakes all round.
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        Paul Beatty
        Slumberland
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        internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland6 years ago
        The untold story of a clockmaker's attempt to kill Hitler: to prevent the Second World War.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland6 years ago
          The Hess family thought they'd managed to shake off Anti-German sentiment in America. But things take a turn when war breaks out in Europe once again.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland6 years ago
          Art. Music. Anarchy. Welcome to the new Berlin.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland6 years ago
          Germany in full. Abridged.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          A detective sets out to solve the murder of a Nazi scientist's brother in a divided Berlin, two years after the war ends.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          A New York Times Bestseller: The incredible but little-known true story of the Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin at the height of World War II — and lived to tell the tale.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          When a Stasi officer is assigned a surveillance task, he quickly becomes absorbed in the minutiae of his subject’s lives: a playwright and his actress girlfriend. But when it transpires his assignment isn’t what it first appeared, he begins to question his loyalties.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          O, Tannenbaum! An intriguing look at the evolution of Christmas traditions in Germany; from tribal pagan beginnings through to consumerist excesses, along with ways in which this favourite holiday was hijacked by propagandists during the war.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          A well-crafted collection of short stories looking at life on both sides of the infamous barrier that once divided Berlin, as well as some very human stories of those trapped in the Jewish ghettos.
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          Jurek Becker
          The Wall
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          The lines between fact and fiction blur in this memoir of small town life in Germany in the years following World War 2.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          Moving to Germany? Doing business there? Want to appease your new German in-laws with an array of facts about their great nation? Start here.
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          A moment in time captured by an astute observer. Experience the German capital during the Golden Years of the Weimar Republic.
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          Franz Hessel
          In Berlin
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          internationaladded a book to the bookshelfDeutschland, Deutschland7 years ago
          Observe the splendour of Deutschland! From Bavarian forests to the tree-lined boulevards of Berlin — this coffee table photo album has them all.
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          Just Pictures
          Germany
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