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The night travelers : a novel / by Correa, Armando Lucas,1959-author.; Caistor, Nick,translator.; Molinari, Cecilia,translator.; Williams, Faye,translator.; translation of:Correa, Armando Lucas,1959-Viajera nocturna.English.;
Includes bibliographical references.Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Mothers and daughters; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Winter work / by Fesperman, Dan,1955-author.;
"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is forced to pick up the pieces of their plan and follow through alone while under the newfound scrutiny of his colleagues. Soon Emil is connected with CIA agent Claire Saylor who is on the ground in Berlin to collect what she can of the valuable intelligence that has been freed up because of the chaotic government transition to unify Germany. As they delve deeper into the world of the murdered officer, it becomes clear that there are secrets deeper than either of them can imagine, and that while the rules of the game have begun to change, the stakes of the Cold War are still high"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Cold War; Espionage; Intelligence officers; Murder; Spies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The eternal Nazi : from Mauthausen to Cairo, the relentless pursuit of SS doctor Aribert Heim / by Kulish, Nicholas.; Mekhennet, Souad.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The compelling story of the hunt for Aribert Heim, whose decades-long flight from justice turned a mid-level SS officer and concentration camp doctor into the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world. Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a horrifying mark on the memories of survivors. According to their testimony, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts. He performed surgeries on otherwise healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls set out on his desk to display perfect sets of teeth. In the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark past and establish himself as a reputable doctor in the resort town of Baden-Baden. He was tall, handsome, a bit of a charmer, and quickly settled down with a wife and children in peace and comfort. But certain rare individuals in Germany were unwilling to let Nazi war criminals go unpunished. Among them was a police investigator named Alfred Aedtner, who turned finding Heim into an overriding obsession; his quest took him across Europe and across decades, and into a close alliance with legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. This is the incredible story of how Aribert Heim evaded capture, living in a working-class neighborhood of Cairo, praying in Arabic, beloved by an adopted Muslim family, while inspiring a manhunt that outlived him by many years. He became the "Eternal Nazi," a symbol of Germany's evolving attitude toward the sins of its past, which finally crested in a desire to see justice done at almost any cost"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Heim, Aribert, 1914-1982.; Mauthausen (Concentration camp); Fugitives from justice; Fugitives from justice; Human experimentation in medicine; Physicians; War criminals; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Waste Land : A World in Permanent Crisis. by Kaplan, Robert D.;
We are entering a new era of global cataclysm in which the world faces a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of both monarchy and empire, and countless other dangers. In 'Waste Land', Robert D. Kaplan explains how we got here and offers lessons from history that can help stop the spiral.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Germany; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The novelist from Berlin / by Alexander, V. S.,author.;
"1920s Germany: Though the world has changed in the wake of the Great War, it is still ruled by men. Even a woman as resourceful and intelligent as Niki Rittenhaus needs alliances in order to survive. Her marriage to Rickard Länger, a movie producer for Berlin's Passport Pictures, seems convenient for them both. When Rickard succumbs to increasing pressure from the Nazis to make propaganda movies, a horrified Niki turns away from her own film aspirations and instead, begins to write. Niki's first novel, The Berlin Woman, is published under a pseudonym to great success. But Niki knows she cannot stay anonymous for long. The Nazis are cementing their power over Germany--and over her husband. Though she succeeds in escaping Rickard, he directs Hitler's Brownshirts to do the unthinkable: kidnap their daughter. With her books blacklisted, her life in danger, and Europe descending into war, Niki travels to Amsterdam, joins the Dutch Resistance, and then returns to war-torn Berlin determined to claim freedom for herself and her child, and to write her own story at last."--Back cover.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Married people; Mothers and daughters; Nazis; Women novelists; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler / by Donner, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
Subjects: Biographies.; Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943.; Rote Kapelle (Resistance group); Americans; Anti-Nazi movement; Espionage; Executions and executioners; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets / by Bilger, Burkhard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gönner, Karl, 1899-1979.; Bilger, Burkhard; Ex-Nazis; Teachers; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-365) and index.Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vermork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of the heavy water needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of spies and commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions.
Subjects: Atomic bomb; Sabotage; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth / by Kempe, Frederick.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.;
© c2011., G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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The book thief / by Zusak, Markus.; White, Trudy.;
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Books and reading; Storytelling; Death; Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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