18 books like Zoo Station

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Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials Telford Taylor · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 703p · ≈ 23h · Moderate A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international tribunal established to try top-echelon Nazis. Telford provides an engrossing eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century. (Source: Penguin Random House) Shares: Germany, History

The witch's trinity Erika Mailman · 2007 · ★ 3.6 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate No one escapes suspicion when a famine afflicts a medieval German village. Eager to identify a scapegoat, the starving residents of Tierkinddorf fall under the spell of an itinerant friar claiming to be able to extract confessions of witchcraft from transgressors. When elderly Güde Müller begins to experience blackouts and confusing visions, her daughter-in-law Irmeltrud seizes the opportunity to… Shares: Germany, History

Other Kingdoms Richard Matheson · 2011 · ★ 2.1 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In 1918, wounded WWI American soldier Alex White has a frightening encounter in the forest near the pastoral English village of Gatford. His encounter leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds… Shares: Americans, History

The Agony Column Earl Derr Biggers · 1916 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Challenging London that historic summer was almost unbearably hot. It seems, looking back, as though the big baking city in those days was meant to serve as an anteroom of torture—an inadequate bit of preparation for the hell that was soon to break in the guise of the Great War. About the soda-water bar in the drug store near the Hotel Cecil many American tourists found solace in the sirups and creams of… Shares: Journalists, Americans

East German foreign intelligence Kristie Macrakis · 2009 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "We have assembled an international group of scholars to examine East German foreign intelligence as a historical problem in the intelligence areas of: politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counter-intelligence. Themes and topics that run through the volume include the espionage wars; the relationship to the KGB; the successes and failures of the BND… Shares: Germany, Spies, History

Man without a face Wolf, Markus · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Moderate How Cold War geopolitics challenged the bonds of lifelong friendsThis now-legendary memoir written by a leader of East Germany's notorious Stasi secret police follows three expatriate families whose boys create childhood bonds in Moscow—only to find the events of the 20th century casting them in different directions and testing not only their ties but their political beliefs.Author Markus Wolf,… Shares: Germany, Spies

Above suspicion Helen MacInnes · 1941 · ★ 3.9 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures. Above Suspicion was MacInnes’… Shares: Germany, History

Twilight in Italy D. H. Lawrence · 1916 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. Shares: Germany, History

Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler · 1922 · ★ 3.2 · 478p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 1925 autobiographical book "My Struggle" (USA: "My Battle") by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler On April 1, 1924, because of the sentence handed down by the People's Court of Munich, I had to begin that day, serving my term in the fortress at Landsberg on the Lech. Thus, after years of uninterrupted work, I was afforded for the first time an opportunity to embark on a task insisted upon by many… Shares: Germany, History

The Quiet American Graham Greene · 1940 · ★ 4.2 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Challenging One of Graham Greene's best works. The story is set at the time of the French war against the Viet Cong and tells the story of liberal British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and their relationship with American idealist Pyle. The latter is an earnest young man indocrinated with geo-political theory and whose attempts to shape the world to American ideals ends in his own personal… Shares: Journalists, Americans

Pavel & I Dan Vyleta · 2008 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Set during the winter of 1946, Pavel and I mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help… Shares: Spies, Americans, History

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Shares: Americans, History

Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon · 1973 · ★ 4.0 · 1160p · ≈ 38h · Challenging Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds… Shares: Americans, History

Potsdam Station David Downing · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The third in the 'John Russel' series of novels, set in WWII Berlin. Shares: Journalists, History

Der Untergang des Abendlandes Oswald Spengler · 1918 · ★ 4.1 · 647p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography. Shares: Germany, History

Imprimatur Rita Monaldi · 2002 · 599p · ≈ 19h · Moderate In den Gassen der ewigen Stadt wartet der Tod: Der historische Kriminalroman »Imprimatur« von Monaldi & Sorti jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. »Monaldi & Sorti sind die Erben Umberto Ecos!« L' Express – Rom anno domini 1683. Er ist der beste Agent des französischen Sonnenkönigs, betraut mit einem Auftrag, bei dem das Schicksal Europas auf dem Spiel steht – doch nun sitzt Abbé Melani in der Herberge… Shares: Spies, History

Secretum Rita Monaldi · 2004 · 764p · ≈ 25h · Moderate July 1700, Rome. Atto Melani once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Shares: Spies, History

Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse Sigmund Freud · 1950 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Proyecto de psicología es una serie de manuscritos póstumos de Sigmund Freud redactados en el año 1885 y publicados en Londres en el año 1950 por Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud y E. Kris con el título Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse junto a fragmentos de su correspondencia con Wilhelm Fliess. Shares: Germany, History

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