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1) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young British post office technician becomes deeply involved in electronic surveillance in postwar Berlin in 1955.
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 3
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son Paul and his longtime girlfriend Effi. Forced to work for both German and American intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take Effi with him?
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell tries to avoid reporting on the war in the hopes of avoiding deportation from Germany, but he soon learns it is hard to stay out of the political and social upheavals of the war.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 560 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
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.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
36 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Knut, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, and the efforts of Thomas Dorflein, a zookeeper who nurtured and fed him after the cub's mother rejected him.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? At the height of World War II, Berlin has become a city of women. Sigrid Schroder, the model German soldier's wife, goes to work every day, does her best with her rations, cares for her meddling mother-in-law, and ignores the horrors of the regime. But behind this facade Sigrid dreams of her lover, lost in the chaos of war. Her lost lover is a Jew. And Sigrid is not the only one with secrets....
Author
Series
Rororo volume 25635
Publisher
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Two 14 year old boys, joyriding in a stolen car, discover what true friendship is.
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties--a paradise for spies. Meanwhile, Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA,...
10) March violets
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, Bernhard Gunther is a private investigator who solves a case of theft, murder, and corruption within the new Nazi supporting group, the March Violets.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He was a Nazi -- but one with a damaging tale to tell.If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bernhard Gunther, a private investigator in Germany in 1938, is hired by a rich widow to discover who has been blackmailing her, and by the Berlin police to track down a serial killer, and runs into bizarre psychotherapy and medicinal practices and Nazi occultism.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twentysomething living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her fate. Increasingly distant from what used to be at arm's reach-writerly ambitions, tight-knit friendships, a place to call home-Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin's nightlife, with...
14) The Oppermanns
Author
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First McNally Editions paperback.
Physical Desc
xviii, 380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public spirited, proud inheritors of the German enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xvi, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II that fired the starting gun for the Cold War"--
After the 1945 Yalta Conference, Berlin-- along with the rest of Germany-- was to be carved up among the victorious powers. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union were no longer united by the common purpose of defeating Germany, they wasted...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
482 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Network correspondent Jake Geismar, who covered Berlin before the war, has returned to the devastated city, ostensibly to cover the Potsdam Conference but actually to find the woman he loves. Miraculously, Lena Brandt, Jake's wartime mistress, has survived. When the bullet-ridden body of an American soldier washes up on the shores of Potsdam in front of Jake's eyes just as Truman, Churchill, and Stalin convene the first postwar conference, Jake is...
Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin today is the nuclear fuel rod of a great nation, and no tour of Germany is complete without a look at its historic and reunited capital. A city of leafy boulevards, grand Neoclassical buildings, world-class art, and glitzy shopping arcades, it's vibrant with youth, energy, and an anything-goes-and-anything's-possible buzz. As you walk over what was the Wall and through the well-patched Brandenburg Gate, it's clear that history is not contained...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive, a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad, and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart...
Author
Series
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1964]
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
256 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
On its publication In 1964, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carre combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports us back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life. When the...
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