DescriptionIn the winter of 1943-44, "Bomber" Harris waged a grim war against Berlin, sure that he could bomb the Third Reich into submission prior to D-Day. But as casualties mounted, it became clear that the German capital was a tough nut to crack.
DescriptionThe setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes 25-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening, a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.
DescriptionIn 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of…
DescriptionGerman Conversation is a three-hour, all-audio course which you can use at any time, whether you want a quick refresher before a trip or whether you are a complete beginner. The 20 dialogues will teach you the German you will need to speak and understand, without getting bogged down with grammar. The course also, uniquely, teaches skills for listening and understanding. This is the perfect accompaniment to Beginner's German and German in the Teach Yourself range.
DescriptionAudiowalk Berlin provides you with a clever solution of using your mp3 player or iPod to get to know one of Germany's most exciting cities: Berlin. Let Audiowalk guide you along the main landmarks of the formerly divided city. Listen to valuable…
DescriptionKaethe Shalk has married into a family of disappearing German aristocracy. Having spent years in East Berlin, she faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West. Kaethe's journey from America to the broken ground of contemporary Germany becomes an act of recovery: of the lives intertwined by politics and passion, of memory and the invented self, and of Kaethe's search for a daughter lost to her, now grown and living in uncompromising isolation from her mother's past and present, somewhere in vast, resurgent Berlin.
DescriptionOne-day German is a 75-minute crash-course that's gain without pain. No studying, no grammar, just some fast and entertaining real-life speaking practice. Learn the 50 most needed words and add value to your trip. Speak holiday German in only one day!
DescriptionStephen Ambrose tells the miraculous story of how a single American company took the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine, a river Hitler had considered an impenetrable barrier. John Keegan takes us to Berlin in April 1945, all the way to Hitler's bunker, for th…
DescriptionThis alarming signal means that one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain is urgently demanding safe passage to the West. It sends a ripple of panic through the highest levels of British secret service. Appropriately, it has fallen to Bernard Samson, himself once active in the field, but now anchored behind a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue. But even before Samson sets out on his mission, he is confronted with inescapable evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues - a traitor planted by Moscow Centre. To discover who it is - and why - Samson must sift through layers of lies and follow a web of treachery from London to Berlin until hero and traitor collide.
