books

Book Recommendation: The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes under the Berlin Wall

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9th May 20198th May 2019

I would like to recommend Greg Mitchell’s ‘The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes under the Berlin Wall.” Mitchell focuses on remarkable individuals living… Read More »

Book Recommendation: One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

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14th March 20197th March 2019

Although it’s no longer January, and (as you know) certainly no longer freezing, I heartily recommend ‘One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of… Read More »

Book Recommendation: Stasiland

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29th November 20188th February 2019

If you’ve taken a Cold War tour with me, you’ll already have heard this recommendation, but it’s worth repeating that Anna Funder’s ‘Stasiland’ is a must-read for… Read More »

Book Recommendation: Travellers in the Third Reich

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1st November 201824th September 2018

This month’s book is the lengthy but utterly gripping “Travellers in the Third Reich” (2017) by Julia Boyd, a chronicle of experiences of visitors (including… Read More »

Book Recommendation: A Time to Dance, a Time to Die

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4th October 20183rd September 2018

A break from Nazis and Stasi for this month, to recommend you a book which I devoured in two sittings during my recent trip to… Read More »

Book Recommendation: East West Street

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6th September 20183rd September 2018

Several of you recommended this title to me in the last few months, so I am especially pleased to suggest our book of the month for… Read More »

Book Recommendation: Hanns an Rudolf

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9th August 20182nd July 2018

This month, I wholeheartedly recommend Thomas Harding’s Hanns and Rudolf. In a unique double-biographical style, Harding contrasts the decisions and destinies of Hanns Alexander, a German… Read More »

Book Recommendations: Germania and Danubia

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12th July 20182nd July 2018

This month, a wholehearted double recommendation for you: Simon Winder’s Germania and Danubia, packed with anecdotes and revelations, by an author with a clear fondness for the many idiosyncrasies… Read More »

Book Recommendation: Blitzed

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12th April 201819th March 2018

A book that is more than deserving of its bestseller status, Norman Ohler’s ‘Blitzed‘ is an examination of drug addiction in Nazi Germany. The book’s… Read More »

Book Recommendation: The Kaiser’s Holocaust

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15th March 201814th March 2018

‘The Kaiser’s Holocaust‘, by David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen, exposes the long-ignored history of the German Empire’s colony in modern-day Namibia and the mass murder,… Read More »