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  • Audiobook

    Francis of Assisi

    The Life of a Restless Saint

    by Volker Leppin ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 40 min

    One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians and other spiritual seekers, from medieval ascetics to 1960s hippies and modern environmentalists. The "poverello" wrote poems praising the sun, moon, and stars, spoke to the birds, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • About Death Penalty. Reflections on Legal History

    From the Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian Precursors up to Gemanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages

    by Volker Krey ...
    The brief monograph at hand deals with the issue Death Penalty from a legal history standpoint. Here, after some introductory remarks on pre-state societies (hunters and gatherers), the following historic eras are subject matter: The Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian precursors, Germanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages. Target groups of this publication particularly are criminal lawyers, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martin Bormann

    Hitler's Executioner

    by Volker Koop ...
    Translated by Cordula Werschkun ...
    A biography of the man who served as head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, Hitler's personal secretary, and the monster who decided the fate of millions.Born on June 17, 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler: Ascent

    1889-1939

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs.“[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others can transform a country — and, in Hitler’s case, lead to an unimaginable nightmare for the world.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lions of Carentan

    Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943–1945

    "F ascinating . . . a must read for those who are interested in the Normandy, Market Garden, and Ardennes Operations" (Henrik Lunde, author of Hitler's Preemptive War).This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, the 6th, from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. With numerous firsthand accounts from key ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Babylon Berlin

    Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series

    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 1 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars." --NPRBabylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Francis of Assisi

    The Life of a Restless Saint

    by Volker Leppin ...
    Translated by Rhys S. Bezzant ...
    An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the mythsOne of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians and other spiritual seekers, from medieval ascetics to 1960s hippies and modern ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Commandant of Auschwitz

    Rudolf Höss

    by Volker Koop ...
    The renowned WWII historian's definitive biography of the notorious German SS officer convicted of war crimes for his role in the Holocaust.Described as one of the greatest mass-murderers in history, Rudolf Höss was the longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. He was one of the chief architects behind Hitler's Final Solution. In The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler: Downfall

    1939-1945

    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent“Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Silent Death

    A Gereon Rath Mystery

    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 2 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    The Silent Death: A Gripping Historical Mystery Set in the Shadows of 1930s Berlin"[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction."—The New York TimesVolker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with The Silent Death as a police inspector investigates crime and corruption in a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy

    Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions - arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers from: stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and other neurological ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Bismarck

    The Iron Chancellor

    Translated by Timothy Beech ...
    Series series Life & Times
    An accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s first chancellor.Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany put Europe on a path of disaster leading up to World War I. But, as this new edition of his accessible biography shows, the real Bismarck was a far more complex character.A leading ... Read more

    $12.99 USD