Agee, Joel. Twelve Years; An American Boyhood in East Germany. A unique view of life inside East Germany where the author (son of James Agee) lived with his American mother and German Communist stepfather from age eight until 1960 when his parents' marriage failed and he returned to America. “Catalogues his expatriate passage to manhood” and his adolescent rebellion “...the menoir fascinates with its rare view of the personal side of life in the other Germany.”
Albish, Walter. How German Is It? Contemporary Germany--can fascination with America co-exist with and persistence of tradition?
Bailey, George. The Germans: Biography of an Obsession. Interesting study of what it means to be German from a personal approach.
Bedford, Sybille. The Legacy. Witty novel of Germany early in this century.
Boll, Heinrich. Absent Without Leave. Can an anti-Nazi soldier survive in 1939?
Bruckner, Christine. Flight of Cranes. (1982) Document of a woman's survival from the end of World War II, fleeing the Russian troops, to a middle-age in postwar Germany. The companion book, about the woman's earlier life, is Gillyflower Kid (1982).
Craig, Gordon. The Germans, Brilliant and insightful intellectual approach. (1982)
Cranshaw, Edward. Bismarck. (1981) Biography of the man many Germans still identify as their greatest hero.
Deighton, Len. Winter - A Novel of a Berlin Family. Spellbinding novel tracing the history of a Berlin family from the turn of the century through the end of WWII.
Dornberg, John. The Two Germanys
Engelmann, Bernt. In Hitler's Germany Everyday Life in the Third Reich. (1988) Quick, concise and interesting and true. One young German and his circle of friends disrupt Nazi plans.
Forsyth, Frederick. The Odessa File. A young reporter penetrates an organization that shield former Nazi SS officers, called ODESSA. “Tough to put down” once started.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Classic account of the Jewish girl's life in hiding from the Nazis.
Hanser, Richard. A Noble Treason. The price of courage in Hitler's Bavaria.
Holm, Bill. Coming Home Crazy.
Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men on the Bummel. A funny bicycle tour of the Black Forest.
Keefe, Eugene K. East Germany - A country series, Area Handbook Series (1981)
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. Fascinating study of one man's struggle against the final solution.
Kennedy Center Publications (Bringham Young University). Citizen Diplomacy: Responding to Questions About America. Collection of more than sixty questions frequently asked about America, with sample responses that are informative, balanced, and nonconfrontational.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz; The Periodic Table; The Drowned and The Saved. Remarkable distillations of the concentration camp experience.
Schlee, Ann. Rhine Journey. A Victorian heroine discovers feelings that change her life as she sails down the Rhine.
Senger, Valentin. No. 12 Kaiserhofstrasse. A unique first-person chronicle of a Jewish family that survived the Nazis by pretending to be gentiles, though the entire block on which they lived knew of the charade.
Shirer, William. The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940. From the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. First hand account of the decade of growing upheaval.
Tenoom, Corrie. The Hiding Place. Wartime tragedy, and triumph of the spirit.
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