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  • Paper Empire

    William Gaddis and the World System

    by Klaus Benesch, Nicholas Brown, Stephen J. Burn, Anja Zeidler, Anne Furlong, Tom LeClair, Joseph McElroy, Steven Moore, Stephen Schryer, Nicholas Spencer, Crystal K. Alberts, Dr. Michael Wutz, Dr. Jeff Bursey ...
    Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelistsIn 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis’s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Operation Valhalla

    Writings on War, Weapons, and Media

    by Friedrich Kittler ...
    Series series a Cultural Politics book
    Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary analyses, and autobiographical musings, Kittler outlines how war has been a central driver of media's evolution, from Prussia's wars against Napoleon to the so-called War on Terror. Covering an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Conversations with W. S. Merwin

    Edited by Michael Wutz, Hal Crimmel ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences (Robert Graves and Ezra Pound), his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, and his extraordinary work as a translator, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The SS Dirlewanger Brigade

    The History of the Black Hunters

    by Christian Ingrao ...
    Translated by Phoebe Green ...
    The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Their numbers were soon ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Swiss and the Nazis

    How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich

    by Stephen Halbrook ...
    The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses "a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught" ( Daly History Blog).While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath.This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    Edited by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bearing Witness

    How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

    by John R. Carpenter ...
    It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

    Edited by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert ...
    The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub

    Writing During World War II

    by John R. Carpenter ...
    It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Reluctant Meister

    How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future

    by Stephen Green ...
    The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much of its recent history. Reluctant Meister is a wide-ranging study of Germany from the Holy Roman Empire through the Second and Third Reichs, and it asks not only how such a mature and developed culture ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pandora’s Box

    A History of the First World War

    by Jörn Leonhard ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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