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'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review 'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative...

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents’ abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York, where she moved as an adult, she arrives with her two teenagers to discover a city that has become an unrecognizable ghost town.

Amanda McCrina's Traitor is a tightly woven YA thrill ride exploring political conflict, deep-seated prejudice, and the terror of living in a world where betrayal is a matter of life or death. “Alive with detail and vivid with insight, Traitor is an effortlessly immersive account of a shocking...

Melville’s Moby Dick unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in Black Leviathan, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perplies. Beware! A shadow will cover you, larger than that cast by any other dragon of this world. Black as the lightless chasm from whence it was born...

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false conclusions drawn became myths about the Blitzkrieg that have lingered for decades.

As war began in Europe in 1939, a naturalized German American was recruited by the Nazis to set up a radio transmitter and collect messages from spies active in the city to send back to Nazi spymasters in Hamburg. This German American, William G. Sebold, approached the FBI and became the first double agent in the Bureau's history, the center of a 16-month investigation that led to the arrest of a colorful cast of 33 enemy agents.

A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall.

The compelling untold story of a group of stranded U.S. Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. When 26 Army nurses and medics-part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the...

Zum einen galt Angela Merkel als Bewahrerin von Freiheit, Demokratie und Menschenrechten. Zum anderen als visionslose Machtpolitikerin. 16 Jahre lang lenkte sie die Geschicke Deutschlands - und Europas. Ausgerechnet eine Frau, die vom Leben in einer sozialistischen Parteidiktatur geprägt war, sollte die westliche Welt durch schwere Krisen führen: ob Flüchtlings- oder Finanzkrise, Trumps Präsidentschaft oder zuletzt die Corona-Pandemie.

Wie uns unser persönlicher digitaler Wandel gelingt: Wir spüren alle, dass der Boden, auf dem wir stehen, zittert. Lähmt uns der Gedanke, dass rund die Hälfte aller Berufe aussterben wird? Oder elektrisiert uns die Aussicht auf eine glanzvolle digitale Zukunft? Christoph Keese, einer der führenden Digitalisierungsexperten Deutschlands, ist immer am Puls der Veränderungen. Er fordert uns auf, unsere persönlichen Stärken zu erkennen und zu nutzen, um uns radikal neu zu erfinden. Zeigt, wie wir es schaffen, mit den Entwicklungen Schritt zu halten.

German is easier than it seems. This audiobook will give you not only the basic grammar rules, but also many fun exercises for you to practice. If you’ve never studied German before or if you’ve studied it but you need to go back to the basics to get better, this audiobook will provide you with everything you need, especially if you are planning on traveling to Germany!

Ein Funke—oder auch: ein Taurus-Marschflugkörper—genügt und in Deutschland herrscht Krieg. Grausamer und schlimmer als wir es uns vorstellen können. Ein Krieg, der unser aller Ende werden kann. Weshalb also haben deutsche Politiker noch immer keine Strategie entworfen, um den Krieg in der Ukraine politisch zu beenden? Diese Frage stellt Ex-General Erich Vad und entwirft ein furchterregendes Szenario, sollte der Ukraine-Krieg aus dem Ruder laufen und nach Deutschland übergreifen.

Die schonungslose Bestandsaufnahme unserer Wirtschaft: Wir können alles - außer digital! Was kann Google, was Volkswagen und Bosch nicht können? Unsere Maschinenbauer, Autoindustrie, Energieversorger, unser Handel, unsere Banken und Dienstleister, aber auch unsere Politiker - Deutschland hat das 21. Jahrhundert mit einem Fehlstart begonnen. Werden wir digitale Provinz oder gelingt uns die Wende zum "Silicon Germany"?

Discover over 1,000 German phrases for sccommodations, eating, traveling, shopping, and more. This audiobook is a collection of the most helpful sentences and phrases that are useful in all possible situations you may find yourself in. It always makes sense to know the most important phrases in the language of your travel destination. In this audiobook, you’ll find over 1,000 phrases in German with English translations, from greetings and directions to restaurants, shopping, and night-life.

This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance. Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. Dulles met with and facilitated the plots of Germans who were trying to destroy the country's leadership.

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Das augenöffnende und anregende Buch von Michael Nast als Hörbuch! Gemeinsam mit Irina von Bentheim und David Nathan (den deutschen Stimmen von Sarah Jessica Parker und Johnny Depp) liest Michael Nast seinen SPIEGELBestseller. Augenöffnend, anregend und immer mit etwas Ironie gewürzt, ermutigt er die chronischen Selbstoptimierer und Perfektionisten der Generation Beziehungsunfähig dazu, den eignen Lebensentwurf zu hinterfragen. Einmalig unterhaltsam und inspirierend.

A tale of terrorism, espionage, and an epic struggle for justice in an America on the verge, sparked by a massive and mysterious explosion in New York Harbor in 1916.

That year, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York Harbor within earshot of downtown Manhattan. The subsequent hail of missiles and gunpowder devastated much of lower New York City.

In May 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe. The only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the wearing down of the Royal Naval defenders, two German army groups were set to storm the beaches of southern England.