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Tag Archives: Germany
Hunting the Eagles
Hunting the Eagles© 2016 Ben Kane402 pages Six years ago, Rome was humiliated and a tenth of her army destroyed when a faithless auxiliary lured three legions into a boggy ambush in the Teutoburg forest. Centurion Tullus, one of the … Continue reading
Germans: terror and tedium
In the past week I’ve read or mostly-read, in the case of The Vampire Economy, two books with a German connection. The first, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, was by far the most interesting of the two. I read this … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, General, Reviews
Tagged economics, Germany, horror, Nazi
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Mephisto
Mephisto© 1936 Klaus Mann272 pages I was fortunate, in my time at the University, to have a class with my favorite professor every semester that I was there; he had an enormous command of late 19th century and early 20th … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged arts-entertainment, Classics Club Strikes Back, Germany, Nazi, WW2
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Project Hail Mary | #agora
Ryland Grace just woke up strapped to a medical bed with two dead roommates. That’s not the least of his problem, though: he’s in space, and he doesn’t know why. Eventually, he’ll figure that out; his memory will return. But … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged anarchism, Andy Weir, Germany, humor, libertarianism
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1913: A Year of Gossip
I reviewed this title on goodreads, I described it as “People magazine for prewar Germany & Austria, with Louis Armstrong and a stray Frenchman thrown in for good measure.” There’s no traditional narrative, more a long series of vignettes that … Continue reading
COVID Reviews #6 Cleaning Up with gangsters, Navajo, politicians, and so many Germans
Back in September and early October when I was under quarantine, I didn’t have computer access, so I couldn’t take many notes or write reviews when things were fresh on my mind. I tried to post comments intermittently, but some … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Austria, crime, Eastern Europe, Germany, history, law, Mafia, Nazi, The Great War, US Constitution, WW2
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In the Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin © 2011 Erik Larson 432 pages In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt needed a man for a post no one wanted to fill: US Ambassador to Germany. … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Er Ist Wieder Da
So there I was, innocently looking to see if Netflix carried older WW2 films like 36 Hours, when I spotted Hitler. “Look who’s back?” I said. “Oh dear.” I’d previously watched The Death of Stalin (Jason Isaacs is a … Continue reading
Er Ist Wieder Da
Er Ist Wieder Da | Look Who’s Back! © 2011 Timur Vermes 401 pages “Herr Hitler … I’m calling to ask whether you’d like to write a book?” “I already have,” I said. “Two, in fact.” Hitler’s back, and boy … Continue reading
Prague Fatale
Prague Fatale © 2011 Phillip Kerr 432 pages Bernie Gunther is a man contemplating suicide. Once, in the Weimar years, he was a happily married policeman. But his wife died, he fell into the bottle, and not long after that Germany itself … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Germany, historical fiction, mystery, Phillip Kerr
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