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Swansong 1945
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski ( Read more... ) -
Ginseng and Borderland
Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 by Seonmin Kim
A discussion of various issues about the borderlands of China and Korea. And it was a borderland, theoretically unsettled. (Dealings with the rest of the world helped push toward a border, which other nations had, ( Read more... ) -
The Belle Époque
The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond by Dominique Kalifa
This is a study of the idea of the Belle Époque, the period from about 1900 to the outbreak of WWI, not the era itself.
Except to survey the evidence that it viewed itself as such a thing (very thin) or as having the traits attributed to the Belle Époque (also thin).
The 1920s ( Read more... ) -
The Nazi Conscience
The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz
A study on how Nazi propaganda and reasoning worked. Starting with discussions of how the original anti-Semitism had to be seriously veiled by profusions of praise for the marvelousness of the German race, emphasis on the unity of the Volke, and only after that, attacks on its enemies.
