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Tales from the German Underworld

1998-01-01 Law
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Release : 1998-01-01
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Tales from the German Underworld by : Richard J. Evans

Download or read book Tales from the German Underworld written by Richard J. Evans. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the means of four powerful and extraordinary narratives from the 19th-century German underworld, this book deftly explores an intriguing array of questions about criminality, punishment, and social exclusion in modern German history. Drawing on legal documents and police files, historian Richard Evans dramatizes the case histories of four alleged felons to shed light on German penal policy of the time. 25 illustrations.

Under a Spell

2013 Fiction
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Release : 2013
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 129/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Under a Spell by : Hannah Jayne

Download or read book Under a Spell written by Hannah Jayne. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Lawson is sent on assignment to her old high school in order to stop a secret witch coven from sacrificing a student, a situation complicated by her guardian's love for her.

Crime

2011-01-11 Fiction
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Release : 2011-01-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 536/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Crime by : Ferdinand von Schirach

Download or read book Crime written by Ferdinand von Schirach. This book was released on 2011-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, comes a jolting debut collection of short stories that daringly brings to light the motivations stirring within the criminal mind. By turns witty and sorrowful, unflinchingly brutal and heartbreaking, the deeply affecting, quietly unnerving cases presented in Crime urge a closer examination of guilt and innocence. In “Fähner,” a small-town physician and avid gardener betrays little emotion when he takes an ax to his wife’s head, an act that shocks the locals but provides a long-awaited reprieve for the good doctor. Abbas, a Palestinian refugee who is cornered into a life of crime, finds true love and seemingly a saving grace with a beautiful student named Stefanie in “Summertime.” But when she is viciously murdered in a hotel room after having been paid to sleep with one of the country’s wealthiest men, is Abbas to blame or is it the man who seems to have it all? And in the startling story “Love,” a young man’s infatuation with his girlfriend takes a grisly turn as he comes to grips with his unconventional—and uncontrollable—impulses to truly know a woman. “Guilt,” writes von Schirach, “always presents a bit of a problem.” In this beautifully nuanced and telling collection, guilt is indeed never as clear-cut as the crime, and justice is more nebulous still.

The Infiltrators

2021-07
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Release : 2021-07
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Book Synopsis The Infiltrators by : Norman Ohler

Download or read book The Infiltrators written by Norman Ohler. This book was released on 2021-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The People's Wars

2017-01-26 History
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Release : 2017-01-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The People's Wars by : Mark Hewitson

Download or read book The People's Wars written by Mark Hewitson. This book was released on 2017-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on 'politics' are still poorly understood. This study makes sense of contemporaries' memories and histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns within a much wider context of press reportage of wars elsewhere in Europe and overseas, debates about military service and the reform of Germany's armies, revolution and counter-revolution, and individuals' experiences of violence and death in their everyday lives. For the majority of the populations of the German states, wars during an era of conscription were not merely a matter of history and memory; rather, they concerned subjects' hopes, fears, and expectations of the future. This is the second volume of Mark Hewitson's study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates the complex relationship between military conflicts and the violent acts of individual soldiers. In particular, it considers the contradictory impact of 'pacification' in civilian life and exposure to increasingly destructive technologies of killing during war-time. This contradiction reached its nineteenth-century apogee during the 'wars of unification', leaving an ambiguous imprint on post-war discussions of military conflict.

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