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Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)

59 mins; March 31, 2026

Susanne Vees-Gulani, 'Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 23, 2026

David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

76 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026

Andrew I. Port, "Germany" (Polity, 2025)

74 hours 6 mins; March 22, 2026

Timothy Manion, "Why Barbarossa Failed: Germany and Russia in the Second World War" (Helion, 2026)

112 hours 30 mins; March 20, 2026

Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)

53 mins; March 15, 2026

Caroline Sharples, "The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History" (Yale UP, 2026)

45 mins; March 10, 2026

Daniel Brook, "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)

50 mins; March 05, 2026

Ailbhe Kenny, "Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music" (Oxford UP, Press 2025)

38 mins; March 03, 2026

Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)

35 mins; March 01, 2026

Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)

54 mins; February 21, 2026

Cindy Schweich Handler, "A German Jew's Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany" (McFarland, 2025)

57 mins; February 16, 2026

Alex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernandez, "Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

59 mins; February 15, 2026

Howard Alan Israel, "Nazi Anatomy Lessons: A Dissection of Evil" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2026)

47 mins; February 13, 2026

Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)

60 hours 11 mins; January 31, 2026

Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

62 hours 12 mins; January 30, 2026

Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

38 mins; January 27, 2026

Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)

62 hours 7 mins; January 26, 2026

Erika Quinn, "This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

35 mins; January 25, 2026

Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)

52 mins; January 21, 2026

Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

62 hours 9 mins; January 17, 2026

Dagmar Herzog, "The New Fascist Body" (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025)

64 hours 34 mins; January 13, 2026

Richard Fine, "The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany" (Cornell, 2023)

57 mins; January 13, 2026

Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; January 12, 2026

Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)

75 hours 37 mins; January 11, 2026

Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

51 mins; January 05, 2026

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

113 hours 11 mins; January 04, 2026

Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; January 03, 2026

Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)

101 hours 9 mins; January 02, 2026

Baijayanti Roy, "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

46 mins; January 01, 2026

Amit Varshizky, "The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

67 hours 40 mins; December 31, 2025

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 23 mins; December 30, 2025

Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)

69 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2025

Daniel M. Herskowitz, "The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

70 hours 8 mins; December 27, 2025

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

63 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2025

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

63 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2025

Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025

Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)

37 mins; December 15, 2025

Wings of Desire

27 mins; December 08, 2025

Anna Nyburg and Charmian Brinson eds., "Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering" (Brill, 2025)

36 mins; December 02, 2025

Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)

59 mins; November 30, 2025

Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

58 mins; November 26, 2025

Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)

87 hours 51 mins; November 25, 2025

Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)

59 mins; November 24, 2025

Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

50 mins; November 20, 2025

Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)

60 hours 29 mins; November 09, 2025

Jakub Gortat, "Remembering National Socialism in Austrian Post-war Film" (1945-1955) (Brill, 2025)

39 mins; October 29, 2025

Kenneth G. Appold, "Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525" (Oxford UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 27, 2025

Roger Moorhouse, "Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45" (HarperCollins, 2025)

65 hours 15 mins; October 26, 2025

Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)

76 hours 34 mins; October 20, 2025

Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Mariner, 2016)

63 hours 20 mins; October 19, 2025

Anthony J. Knowles, "Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany" (Brill, 2025)

46 mins; October 09, 2025

Vartan Matiossian, "The Color of Choice: The Armenians and the Politics of Race in the United States and Germany (1890-1945)" (Brill, 2025)

79 hours 9 mins; October 06, 2025

Marcia C. Schenck, "Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

45 mins; October 05, 2025

David M. Whitford, "The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity" (Routledge, 2025)

57 mins; October 05, 2025

Árni Heimir Ingólfsson , "Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland" (Indiana UP, 2019)

68 hours 17 mins; September 27, 2025

Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

85 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2025

Julia Rensing, "Troubling Archives: History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)

46 mins; September 25, 2025

Ofer Ashkenazi, et al., "Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

61 hours 17 mins; September 18, 2025

Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France" (Yale UP, 2025)

66 hours 48 mins; September 13, 2025

Peter Sparding, "No Better Friend? The United States and Germany Since 1945" (Hurst, 2024)

53 mins; September 12, 2025

Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2025)

55 mins; September 11, 2025

Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)

52 mins; September 06, 2025

Harald Bodenschatz et al., "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context, 1933–1945" (DOM, 2025)

56 mins; August 26, 2025

Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)

29 mins; August 24, 2025

Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025)

46 mins; August 21, 2025

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)

64 hours 46 mins; August 19, 2025

Adam A. Blackler, "An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)

58 mins; August 17, 2025

Garrett M. Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

54 mins; August 13, 2025

Ned Richardson-Little, "The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

53 mins; August 13, 2025

Yorai Linenberg, "Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War During the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

87 hours 54 mins; August 09, 2025

Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)

73 hours 2 mins; August 08, 2025

Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)

63 hours 14 mins; August 05, 2025

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ed. et al., "Holocaust Testimonies: Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times" (Bloombury, 2025)

60 hours 15 mins; August 03, 2025

Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)

72 hours 5 mins; August 03, 2025

Marcus Gibson, "The Greatest Force: How RAF Bomber Command Became the No.1 Factor in Britain’s Total, Destructive Defeat of Nazi Germany" (2025)

38 mins; August 02, 2025

Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)

42 mins; August 01, 2025

Anne Hand, "Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2025)

75 hours 7 mins; July 30, 2025

Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

48 mins; July 30, 2025

Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)

57 mins; July 29, 2025

Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

37 mins; July 28, 2025

Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany” (Yale UP, 2016)

55 mins; July 27, 2025

Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)

64 hours 20 mins; July 26, 2025

Scott Harrison et al., "Socialist Subjectivities: Queering East Germany under Honecker" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

76 hours 4 mins; July 21, 2025

Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)

42 mins; July 20, 2025

Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)

75 hours 10 mins; July 20, 2025

Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, "Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War" (Basic Books, 2021)

46 mins; July 13, 2025

Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

31 mins; July 12, 2025

Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

69 hours 21 mins; July 08, 2025

Elisabeth Åsbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)

60 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2025

Sven Saaler, Kudō Akira, and Tajima Nobuo eds., "Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010" (Brill, 2017)

68 hours 5 mins; July 01, 2025

Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During the Stalingrad Offensive: Spring 1942 to the Spring of 1943" (Frontline, 2025)

93 hours 18 mins; June 27, 2025

Thiago P. Barbosa, "Racializing Caste: Anthropology Between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970)" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

43 mins; June 23, 2025

Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

41 mins; June 20, 2025

Carolin Duttlinger, "Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)

58 mins; June 17, 2025

Michelle Lynn Kahn, "Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

38 mins; June 11, 2025

Julia Sneeringer, "West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-89" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

62 hours 47 mins; June 08, 2025

Roger Chickering, "The German Empire, 1871–1918" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

53 mins; June 04, 2025

Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

49 mins; June 04, 2025

Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)

67 hours 50 mins; May 30, 2025

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