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NON FICTION >> History
Steve Crawshaw & John Jackson:
SMALL ACTS OF RESISTANCE
Sterling · New York, 2010 · 272 pp · with b/w photos throughout
Sold to France
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
In a world of Goliaths, we need stories of Davids to sustain us. With its gutsy, creative, and rousing tales of ordinary people creating extraordinary change, Small Acts of Resistance proves that it is possible.
Christian Meier:
DAS GEBOT ZU VERGESSEN UND DIE UNABWEISBARKEIT DES ERINNERNS
Siedler · München, 2010 · 160 pp
THE IMPERATIVE TO FORGET AND THE INDICTABILITY OF REMEMBERING · Public dealing with an oppressive past
Does constant remembering help us process the past?
Henrik Eberle:
WAR HITLER KRANK? Ein abschliessender Befund
Gustav Lübbe Verlag · Köln, 2009 · 317 pp
WAS HITLER ILL? A Final Diagnosis
The answer to one of the most interesting questions about Adolf Hitler‘s life
Hans-Ulrich Dillmann & Susanne Heim:
FLUCHTPUNKT KARIBIK
Ch. Links · Berlin, 2009 · 192 pp
CARIBBEAN VANISHING POINT · Jewish Emigrants in the Dominican Republic
Sosúa is now a popular vacation paradise in the Dominican Republic, for Spanish tourists too. Seventy years ago, at the start of the Second World War, the small town in the north of the island of Hispaniola was one of the few “safe havens” for Jews.
Hellmut G. Haasis:
DEN HITLER JAG ICH IN DIE LUFT • Der Attentäter Georg Elser
Edition Nautilus · Hamburg, 2009 · 320 pp
I WILL BLOW UP HITLER. The Assasin Georg Elser
Munich, November 8th 1939: Everything has been carefully arranged. Georg Elser planted a bomb into the speakers desk, working secretly, 30 nights in a row. But that night Hitler had left the "Bürgerbräukeller", just in time, before the bomb could detonate.
Carolyn Gossage:
AUF IRRFAHRT
Ch. Links · Berlin, 2009 · 224 pp
ODYSSEY · Seven Canadian Women on a Journey through the Third Reich
In April of 1941, seven Canadian women become prisoners of war when they try to cross the Atlantic on the Egyptian passenger liner “Zamzam” and their ship is sunk by a German raider. Not acquainted before they embarked for Africa, it was fate that brought them together.
Hans Dieter Stöver:
DER SIEG ÜBER VARUS
dtv · München, 2009 · 400 pp
VARUS' DEFEAT
That wasn’t what the Romans expected – at that time, 9 AD: “Varus, Varus, give me back my legions”, Emperor August is supposed to have lamented, after the Romans were utterly defeated in September, 9 AD, by the former Roman officer Arminus.
