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The Dutch Wife

The Dutch Wife
  • Author(s): Ellen Keith
  • Location(s): Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1970s

Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration...

The Edelweiss Pirates

The Edelweiss Pirates
  • Author(s): Dirk Reinhardt
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): WW2

‘An unknown story we should all know, about the triumph of courage and of the human spirit over the most evil regime the world has ever known’ Michael Morpurgo When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he feels the old...

The Escape

The Escape
  • Author(s): Clare Harvey
  • Location(s): Germany, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945, 1989

One winter morning in Germany in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. One man catches her eye and she cannot forget him. The following day she receives an...

The Fall of Berlin

The Fall of Berlin
  • Author(s): Antony Beevor
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

The Fate of Magic

The Fate of Magic
  • Author(s): Sara Raasch, Beth Revis
  • Location(s): Black Forest
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult

The breathtaking sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller Night of the Witch culminates with a sweeping fantasy romance and an epic battle to determine the fate of magic…and the world. Fritzi is a champion. After escaping the...

The Fatherland Files

The Fatherland Files
  • Author(s): Volker Kutscher
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

July 1932. When a drowned man is found in a freight elevator in Haus Vaterland, the giant pleasure palace on Potsdamer Platz, Inspector Gereon Rath is called in to investigate. It’s not that Rath hasn’t problems enough. His hunt...

The German Room

The German Room
  • Author(s): Carla Maliandi
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could we claim that The German Room invents a new genre? It would be an exaggeration, of course, but we can certainly say that this novel represents what we could call a non-coming of age tale. A female protagonist...

The Ghosts of Altona

The Ghosts of Altona
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Head of Hamburg’s Murder Commission, Jan Fabel is used to the dead, but when a routine enquiry spirals out of control he finds himself on much closer terms with death – his own. As he struggles to process this...

The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis: Sophie Scholl and the Plot Against Hitler

The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis: Sophie Scholl and the Plot Against Hitler
  • Author(s): Haydn Kaye, Amerigo Pinelli (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Era(s): WW2, 1942

How one young student and her friends fought against fascism in Nazi Germany – the incredible story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. Part of the True Adventures series! Nazi Germany, 1942. As World War Two rages, Sophie...

The Good German

The Good German
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s, post WW2

Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable – streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high...

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