Death in Berlin
Title | Death in Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | M. M. Kaye |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250089174 |
Set against a background of war-scarred Berlin in the early 1950s, M. M. Kaye's Death in Berlin is a consummate mystery from one of the finest storytellers of our time. Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be a month's vacation. But from the moment that Brigadier Brindley relates the story about a fortune in lost diamonds--a story in which Miranda herself figures in an unusual way--the vacation atmosphere becomes transformed into something more ominous. And when murder strikes on the night train to Berlin, Miranda finds herself unwillingly involved in a complex chain of events that will soon throw her own life into peril. "Leisurely, well-plotted, affable entertainment." - Kirkus Reviews
Death in Berlin
Title | Death in Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Black |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2010-05-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521118514 |
Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall.
Death in the Tiergarten
Title | Death in the Tiergarten PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Carter Hett |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2004-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674013179 |
From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square ringed by bleak slums, to Moabit, site of the city's most feared prison, Death in the Tiergarten illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late imperial Germany. In vivid prose, Benjamin Hett examines daily movement through the Berlin criminal courts and the lawyers, judges, jurors, thieves, pimps, and murderers who inhabited this world. Drawing on previously untapped sources, including court records, pamphlet literature, and pulp novels, Hett examines how the law reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly changing city. In this book, German criminal law looks very different from conventional narratives of a rigid, static system with authoritarian continuities traceable from Bismarck to Hitler. From the murder trial of Anna and Hermann Heinze in 1891 to the surprising treatment of the notorious Captain of Koepenick in 1906, Hett illuminates a transformation in the criminal justice system that unleashed a culture war fought over issues of permissiveness versus discipline, the boundaries of public discussion of crime and sexuality, and the role of gender in the courts. Trained in both the law and history, Hett offers a uniquely valuable perspective on the dynamic intersections of law and society, and presents an impressive new view of early twentieth-century German history.
Berlin Soldier
Title | Berlin Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Helmut Altner |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2016-08-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0750979798 |
This book is an explosive memoir of a 17 year old German boy called up to fight in the last weeks of the Second World War. This is a teenager's vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the massive Soviet assault on Berlin from the Oder, retreated successfully and then took part in the fight for the western suburb of Spandau, where he became one of the only two survivors of his company of seventeen year-olds.
Death at the Berlin Wall
Title | Death at the Berlin Wall PDF eBook |
Author | Pertti Ahonen |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-12-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199546304 |
Death at the Berlin Wall tells the stories of twelve individuals who lost their lives at the Wall between 1961 and 1989, and relates these tragedies to the evolving Cold War tensions between West and East Germany.
Berlin at War
Title | Berlin at War PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Moorhouse |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 467 |
Release | 2010-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465022758 |
The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Title | Berlin Alexanderplatz PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Jelavich |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520259971 |
Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', which questioned the autonomy & coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, & traces the discrepancies that radically altered the work when it was adapted for radio & as a motion picture.