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Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...
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Series
Language
English
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"First published in 1934, yet fully imagining the destiny of Germany over the ensuing years, this uncannily prophetic novel casts the Oppermanns - a German Jewish family that for three generations has owned several successful furniture stores in cosmopolitan Berlin - against the backdrop of surging Nazi power.".
"The past and the future meet in this masterful saga of the Oppermanns. It is the mid 1930s in the world of Feuchtwanger's novel, a time...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world's most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In turbulent Berlin of the 1920s and 1930s, Nick, a scheming cabaret owner, attempts to pass off a woman in a local asylum as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the murdered Russian czar, in order to claim the Romanov fortune.
Author
Publisher
Enigma Publishing
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Hitler's Second Book" is the first complete and annotated edition of the manuscript Hitler dictated shortly before his rise to power and four years after publishing "Mein Kampf". "Hitler's Second Book" contains a catalog of shocking policy statements and previously undisclosed plans of world conquest at the core of Nazi ideology but which Hitler concluded were too provocative for publication.
8) Metropolis
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1928, with Berlin close to chaos and the Nazi party on the rise, young Bernie Gunther, in his first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad, investigates a particularly violent wave of murders targeting the city's vulnerable prostitutes and homeless veterans.
10) Ashes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"How can you make peace when what you really want is revenge? In the wake of 37 million casualties at the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson took his dream of a League of Nations to Paris to seek "peace everlasting," joining over 30 international delegations who descended upon the city fo the most ambitious peace talks in history. Helmed by the Big Four (the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy), the Paris Peace Conference ultimately...
12) Karoussel
Publisher
Alden Films
Pub. Date
[199?]
Language
English
Description
Karoussel, named for a cabaret at Theresienstadt that Kurt Geron (a film star of Weimar Germany) had created, shows life and fate intermeshed with the decadence of Weimar Germany, along with the anti-semitism of pre-war Europe leading up to the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Hitler's niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an improbable political journey that came close to faltering on many occasions, his march to power had finally succeeded. While the path of Hitler's rise has been told in books covering larger portions of his life, no previous work has focused solely on his eight-year...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Traces Hitler's life from his childhood in Austria and his ambition to be an artist, to the forces that shaped the man including the social conditions that hastened his rise to power, and to his final days in a bunker under Berlin.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over a democracy pushed to the breaking point. Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of intrigue, vainly hoping to harness the growing popularity...
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