Modern German History (nonfiction)

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The German Empire, 1870-1918
The German Empire, 1870-1918 3.54 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II 3.75 avg rating — 518 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by: Anonymous
4.29 avg rating — 17,079 ratings
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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation 3.79 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50 4.22 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 11,562 ratings
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The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 7,087 ratings
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3) 4.39 avg rating — 5,928 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich 4.28 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler
Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story 3.98 avg rating — 5,038 ratings
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Hitler: World Tour: We Sold Our Soul
Hitler: World Tour: We Sold Our Soul
by: Ian Tinny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee 4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
Germany: Memories of a Nation 4.52 avg rating — 3,473 ratings
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The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 4.56 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Twentieth-Century Germany: From Bismarck to Brandt
Twentieth-Century Germany: From Bismarck to Brandt 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History 3.48 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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Reforging The Iron Cross: The Search for Tradition in the West German Armed Forces
Reforging The Iron Cross: The Search for Tradition in the West German Armed Forces 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 3.96 avg rating — 293 ratings
21.
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-45
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-45 3.81 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
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Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 4.13 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 4.28 avg rating — 7,362 ratings
23.
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox 4.05 avg rating — 496 ratings
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 3.90 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Rommel: The Desert Fox
Rommel: The Desert Fox 4.07 avg rating — 972 ratings
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The German Aces Speak II: World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
The German Aces Speak II: World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders 4.32 avg rating — 167 ratings
27.
The German Generals Talk
The German Generals Talk 4.02 avg rating — 863 ratings
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On Germany
On Germany 3.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America 4.06 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 4.03 avg rating — 15,095 ratings
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After the Wall
After the Wall 3.42 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
33.
Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II
Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II 4.21 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Disaster at D-day: The Germans Defeat the Allies,june 1944
Disaster at D-day: The Germans Defeat the Allies,june 1944 3.74 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Along the Wall and Watchtower: A Journey Down Germany's Divide
Along the Wall and Watchtower: A Journey Down Germany's Divide 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Black May
Black May 3.86 avg rating — 368 ratings
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D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France
D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France 4.20 avg rating — 251 ratings
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide 4.19 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945
Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945 3.68 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country 3.95 avg rating — 3,486 ratings
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Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia 3.78 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II
Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II 4.07 avg rating — 121 ratings
42.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 4.11 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
42.
The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life and Legacy
The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life and Legacy 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany 1938-40
This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany 1938-40 4.22 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany 3.79 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
45.
Germany since 1945 (Studies in Contemporary History, 24)
Germany since 1945 (Studies in Contemporary History, 24) 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
48.
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941 4.38 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
48.
The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany 4.13 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
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The Year That Changed The World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Year That Changed The World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall 4.20 avg rating — 588 ratings
51.
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 4.37 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe 3.79 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall 4.25 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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War Of Numbers 1914-1916: The Kaiser's Navy Gone Rogue
War Of Numbers 1914-1916: The Kaiser's Navy Gone Rogue 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War 4.15 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945 4.08 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
by: Ed Offley
3.71 avg rating — 242 ratings
57.
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century 3.75 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Life in the Third Reich
Life in the Third Reich 3.37 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich 3.82 avg rating — 924 ratings
60.
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front 4.14 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
60.
The Weimar Years Rise and Fall 1918-1933
The Weimar Years Rise and Fall 1918-1933 4.41 avg rating — 377 ratings
63.
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge 4.12 avg rating — 4,872 ratings
63.
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans 4.26 avg rating — 178 ratings
65.
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 4.16 avg rating — 561 ratings
65.
A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People 3.56 avg rating — 593 ratings
67.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 4.39 avg rating — 18,865 ratings
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Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 3.81 avg rating — 823 ratings
69.
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film 3.92 avg rating — 870 ratings
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A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany
A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany 4.46 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43
Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
72.
Hitler Moves East 1941–1943
Hitler Moves East 1941–1943 4.21 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II 3.88 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Gruesome Harvest
Gruesome Harvest 4.34 avg rating — 65 ratings
75.
Nuremberg: The Last Battle
Nuremberg: The Last Battle 4.22 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Operation Valkyrie
Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Operation Valkyrie 3.74 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Surviving the Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews After Liberation
Surviving the Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews After Liberation 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
78.
The Destruction of Dresden
The Destruction of Dresden 4.01 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall 4.37 avg rating — 12,282 ratings
80.
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by: Götz Aly
4.03 avg rating — 458 ratings
81.
Hitler's National Socialism
Hitler's National Socialism 4.42 avg rating — 52 ratings
82.
How 'socialist' was National Socialism?: A consideration of the ideology of the NSDAP in Germany
How 'socialist' was National Socialism?: A consideration of the ideology of the NSDAP in Germany 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber
Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber 4.40 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Night of the Long Knives (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action No. 7)
Night of the Long Knives (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action No. 7) 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Manstein: His Campaigns and His Trial
Manstein: His Campaigns and His Trial 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings