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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day--April 30, 1945--and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin...
2) Mein Kampf
Author
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hitler's life and his social and political philosophy.
3) Munich
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
4) Adolf Hitler
Author
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the twentieth century.
5) The taster
Author
Language
English
Description
Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship... In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty--working for the Reich or marrying...
6) Bad company
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the waning days of World War II, Adolf Hitler gives his journal to an aide for safekeeping. When it is discovered years later, it is found to contain explosive contents: the details of a clandestine meeting between F.D.R. and Hitler to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. It is up to White House and British operatives Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon to make sure that the document remains a secret.
Author
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history....
Author
Language
English
Description
The historical significance of Adolf Hitler has overshadowed the man behind the public persona. For decades, misconceptions about Hitler have percolated, but to cast Hitler as purely a psychopathic monster is to ignore the facets of his personality that help explain his enigmatic hold on the German populace. Ullrich recounts Hitler's personal journey from childhood to his consolidation of political power, and in doing so captures Hitler's canniness,...
13) Fatherland
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
338 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
14) Hitler
Author
Pub. Date
1974
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xiii, 844 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post-World War...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1936 and the Second World War is fast approaching. And this is no ordinary house, as Pierrot will soon discover. As he is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world -- a world of terror, secrets, and betrayal -- will Pierrot maintain his innocence? Or will he,...
17) Hitler
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1974
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines Hitler's years in Munich after World War I and his radical transformation from a directionless loner into the leader of Munich's right-wing movement.
19) The big switch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A World War II alternate history explores the lives of historic leaders, soldiers, and civilians in a world where Chamberlain chooses not to appease Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact,...