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Germania

2010-03-16 History
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Release : 2010-03-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 417/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Germania by : Simon Winder

Download or read book Germania written by Simon Winder. This book was released on 2010-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you here?" This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force field of historical, linguistic, climatic, and gastronomic barriers? Winder's book is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. Germania is a very funny book on serious topics—how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape.

A Most Dangerous Book

2011-05-02 History
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Release : 2011-05-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 651/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Most Dangerous Book by : Christopher B. Krebs

Download or read book A Most Dangerous Book written by Christopher B. Krebs. This book was released on 2011-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.

Germania

2020-12-01 Fiction
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Release : 2020-12-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 946/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Germania by : Harald Gilbers

Download or read book Germania written by Harald Gilbers. This book was released on 2020-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From international bestselling author Harald Gilbers comes the heart-pounding story of Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer as he hunts for a serial killer through war-torn Nazi Berlin in Germania. Berlin 1944: a serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi party. But according to one eyewitness account, the perpetrator is not an opponent of Hitler's regime, but rather a loyal Nazi. Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer, once a successful investigator for the Berlin police, is reactivated by the Gestapo and forced onto the case. Oppenheimer is not just concerned with catching the killer and helping others survive, but also his own survival. Worst of all, solving this case is what will certainly put him in the most jeopardy. With no other choice but to futher his investigation, he feverishly searches for answers, and a way out of this dangerous game.

Germania

2009-02-10 Fiction
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Release : 2009-02-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Germania by : Brendan McNally

Download or read book Germania written by Brendan McNally. This book was released on 2009-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their youth, Manni and Franzi, together with their brothers, Ziggy and Sebastian, captured Germany's collective imagination as the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers -- one of the most popular vaudeville acts of the old Weimar days. The ensuing years have, however, found the Jewish brothers estranged and ensconced in various occupations as the war is drawing near its end and a German surrender is imminent. Manni is traveling through the Ruhr Valley with Albert Speer, who is intent on subverting Hitler's apocalyptic plan to destroy the German industrial heartland before the Allies arrive; Franzi has become inextricably attached to Heinrich Himmler's entourage as astrologer and masseur; and Ziggy and Sebastian have each been employed in pursuits that threaten to compromise irrevocably their own safety and ideologies. Now, with the Russian noose tightening around Berlin and the remnants of the Nazi government fleeing north to Flensburg, the Loerber brothers are unexpectedly reunited. As Himmler and Speer vie to become the next Führer, deluded into believing they can strike a bargain with Eisenhower and escape their criminal fates, the Loerbers must employ all their talents -- and whatever magic they possess -- to rescue themselves and one another. Deftly written and darkly funny, Germania is an astounding adventure tale -- with subplots involving a hidden cache of Nazi gold, Hitler's miracle U-boats, and Speer's secret plan to live out his days hunting walrus in Greenland -- and a remarkably imaginative novel from a gifted new writing talent.

The Agricola and Germania of Cornelius Tacitus

1885 Rome
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Release : 1885
Genre : Rome
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Book Synopsis The Agricola and Germania of Cornelius Tacitus by : Cornelius Tacitus

Download or read book The Agricola and Germania of Cornelius Tacitus written by Cornelius Tacitus. This book was released on 1885. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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