Books set in Germany
Germany
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
by Douglas Brunt
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel.
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
by Burkhard Bilger
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain).
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Winter Work: A novel
by Dan Fesperman
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Dec 2023
An exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall - from the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife
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Cradles of the Reich: A Novel
by Jennifer Coburn
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Jul 2023
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race.
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The Berlin Exchange: A Novel
by Joseph Kanon
Hardcover: Feb 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
From "master of the genre" (the Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin needing to know who ...
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The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin
by Kip Wilson
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II and discovers her own voice and sexuality and finds a family when she gets a job at a cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson.
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The Great Passion
by James Runcie
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
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Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Géraldine Schwarz
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Sep 2022
Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism...
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.
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The Pages: A novel
by Hugo Hamilton
Hardcover: Feb 2022
An entirely original novel in which a book - Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion - narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery.
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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
by Charlie English
Hardcover: Aug 2021
The untold story of Hitler's war on "degenerate" artists and the mentally ill that paved the way for the Holocaust.
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The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel
Hardcover: Jul 2020
Paperback: May 2021
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "epic and heart...
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