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Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
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In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939-"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary eloquence and analytic acumen, Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings-then and now-toward Germany its people.
Gay relates that the...
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Bernard Samson novels volume 4
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Chronicles the lives of a German family named Winter, from the close of World War I through the Second World War.
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"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
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"Koniec XIX wieku. Lora i Fridolin von Trettin przenoszą się do Berlina, by spełnić marzenie o życiu w wielkim mieście. Są szczęśliwi i pełni nadziei na pomyślną przyszłość. W stolicy Niemiec Fridolin zostaje wicedyrektorem Banku Grünfelder, a Lora spełnia swoje wielkie marzenie-- wspólnie z przyjaciółką otwiera salon mody. Wkrótce okazuje się jednak, że damy z lepszych sfer stronią od towarzystwa Lory, a ktoś knuje przeciwko...
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"Street Life tells the history of the city street as a vanished world that many people yearn for but that few understand in its complexity. Ladd's journey centers on four major cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth and his story of the rich culture of the street ends with the arrival of the automobile - the street increasingly became equated not with commerce or entertainment or assembly but with rapid...
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