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Herscht 07769

Herscht 07769
  • Author(s): Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)
  • Location(s): Thuringia (Thüringen)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer...

Hitler’s Stolen Children

Hitler’s Stolen Children
  • Author(s): Ingrid von Oelhafen
  • Location(s): Germany, Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s-2000s

Hitler’s Stolen Children is a powerful, first-person account of being at the heart of one of the Nazi’s cruelest and most obscene experiments—the Lebensborn program to create a new Aryan master race. In 1942, when she was nine months...

I Was Anastasia

I Was Anastasia
  • Author(s): Ariel Lawhon
  • Location(s): Germany, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Russia, July 17, 1918 Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least...

In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story

In Mozart’s Shadow:  His Sister’s Story
  • Author(s): Carolyn Meyer
  • Location(s): Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...

In Search of Berlin

In Search of Berlin
  • Author(s): John Kampfner
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): looking back over 800 years

Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn’t been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obsessed with memories, a place where traumas...

In the Blood

In the Blood
  • Author(s): Anna Fodorova
  • Location(s): Prague, London, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Then she discovers that not everyone died. Set against the background of the collapse of...

Katharina: Deliverance

Katharina: Deliverance
  • Author(s): Margaret Skea
  • Location(s): Thuringia (Thüringen), Lutherstadt Wittenberg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Germany 1505 Following the death of her mother and her father’s remarriage, five-year-old Katharina is placed in the convent at Brehna. She will never see her father again. Sixty-five miles away, at Erfurt in Thuringia, Martin Luder, a promising...

Keeper of Lost Children

Keeper of Lost Children
  • Author(s): Sadeqa Johnson
  • Location(s): Germany, Maryland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1948 and 1965

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve comes a sweeping story of one woman’s dream in post-World War II Germany and the three lives it changes forever. In the smouldering ruins of post-war Germany,...

Keilsberg – Was geschah mit dem Soldaten Thomas Barley?

Keilsberg – Was geschah mit dem Soldaten Thomas Barley?
  • Author(s): Sebastian Mense
  • Location(s): Kassel
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War 1

Paul’s life is at rock bottom: his career dreams have been shattered, he can’t keep up with technological advances, and his girlfriend has vanished without a trace. Then, just outside the city of Kassel, on the Keilsberg, he stumbles...

Kokoschka’s Doll

Kokoschka’s Doll
  • Author(s): Afonso Cruz
  • Location(s): Dresden, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

At the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice. But it doesn’t belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It...

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