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Spoils of Victory

Spoils of Victory
  • Author(s): John A Connell
  • Location(s): Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Post World War II

From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany. When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home...

Stasiland

Stasiland
  • Author(s): Anna Funder
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell: shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East...

Stettin Station

Stettin Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

November 1941. John Russell is living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. One of a dwindling handful of much-censored journalists, Russell finds...

Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1950s

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

The Aftermath

The Aftermath
  • Author(s): Rhidian Brook
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1940s

Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan has requisitioned a fine house on the...

The Baker’s Daughter

The Baker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sarah McCoy
  • Location(s): El Paso, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking...

The Berlin Crossing

The Berlin Crossing
  • Author(s): Kevin Brophy
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1993

This is a story told partly from the former GDR Michael Ritter, after the Wall has come down. Before his mother dies she urges him to seek out an Evangelical priest, Pastor Bruck, who know the truth about his...

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
  • Author(s): Markus Zusak
  • Location(s): Munich, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during...

The Causeway

The Causeway
  • Author(s): Peter Lihou
  • Location(s): Channel Islands, Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Freddy Stein escapes the net cast by the police forces of Guernsey and Munich, he becomes embroiled in a plan to preserve the lucrative drugs’ dealings of a sinister crime lord. But miles away from his familiar city...

The Field

The Field
  • Author(s): Robert Seethaler
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, the town’s late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps...

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