PENGUIN GROUP USA BOOKS FOR COURSES GERMAN STUDIES 2012 / 2013 CONTENTS HISTORY LITERATURE & PHILOSOPHY FEATURED TITLES 3 13 FEATURED TITLES Richard J. Evans 5 15 Bertolt Brecht Sigmund Freud 8 16 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Karl Marx 10 19 Friedrich Nietzsche School and Personal Copy Order Form 23 Examination Copy Order Form 24 College Faculty Information Service 25 HISTORY LIZZIE COLLINGHAM THE TASTE OF WAR: World War II and the Battle for Food This richly detailed history reveals how control of food and its production shaped the events of World War II. Tracing the interaction between food and strategy on both the military and home fronts in Europe and in colonial empires across the globe, this original account con- nects the broad sweep of history to its intimate impact upon the lives of individuals. “Every now and again a book comes along that transforms our understanding of a sub- ject that had previously seemed so well-worn and familiar. That is the measure of Lizzie Collingham’s achievement in this outstanding global account of the role played by food (and its absence) during the Second World War. It will now be impossible to think of the war in the old way.”—Richard Overy, Literary Review “Does much to correct understanding of the causes of armed conflict and mass murder.... Its usefulness is hard to overstate.”—Timothy Snyder, The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PRESS • 656 PAGES • 978-1-59420-329-9 • $36.00 NORMAN DAVIES VANISHED KINGDOMS: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations An evocative account of fourteen European kingdoms—their rise, maturity, and eventual disappearance. Includes a fascinating overview of Prussia that stretches from the Baltic Prusai people to the Teutonic Knights who ruled the region to the Hohenzollerns who would make Prussia into a modern European power. Also of interest for German studies are a chapter on the many kingdoms of Burgundy and a chapter on Rosenau which ex- amines the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and intermarriage with the British royal family. “An expedition along the byways of European history. It is in part a traveller’s tale, as Davies tours his half-forgotten realms, describing people and landscape, searching for memories and physical remains of these vanished kingdoms. Combined with this are the ruminations of a historian about the states and societies that are this book’s heroes and the reasons why they vanished from the map.”—Dominic Lieven, Financial Times “Magnificent...unlikely ever to be equalled.”—The Independent (UK). VIKING • 803 PAGES • 978-0-670-02273-1 • $40.00 PENGUIN • 848 PAGES • 978-0-14-312295-1 • $23.00 Penguin paperback available November 2012 Also available: No Simple Victory p. 7 TONY JUDT with TIMOTHY SNYDER THINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A series of luminous conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century is the final book of unparalleled his- torian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt. Where Judt’s masterpiece Postwar re- defined the history of modern Europe by uniting the stories of its eastern and western halves, Thinking the Twentieth Century unites the century’s conflicted intellectual his- tory into a single soaring narrative. “In this marvellous book, two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are pro- fessional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions.”—The Guardian PENGUIN PRESS • 432 PAGES • 978-1-59420-323-7 • $36.00 PENGUIN • 432 PAGES • 978-0-14-312304-0 • $16.00 Penguin paperback available February 2013 Also available: Postwar p. 9 3 HISTORY FREDERICK KEMPE BERLIN 1961 Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, Kempe provides a fresh and star- tling account of the Berlin Crisis of 1961 that culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall. “History at its best. Kempe’s book masterfully dissects the Cold War’s strategically most significant East-West confrontation, and in the process significantly enlightens our un- derstanding of the complexity of the Cold War itself.”—Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor “Takes us to Ground Zero of the Cold War. Reading these pages, you feel as if you are standing at Checkpoint Charlie, amid the brutal tension of a divided Berlin.”—David Ignatius, columnist, The Washington Post BERKLEY • 608 PAGES • 978-0-425-24594-1 • $16.00 IAN KERSHAW THE END The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945 From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. “Kershaw combines vivid accounts of particular human experiences with wise reflec- tions on big interpretive and moral issues....[He] succeeds in clearing away a great many misconceptions, he deploys an impressive amount of evidence about the variety and complexity of public opinion and he brilliantly describes the ghastly fate of many ordi- nary Germans. No one has written a better account of the human dimensions of Nazi Germany’s end.”—The New York Times “An insightful study of how the Führer held his grip over the German people for so long.”—The Telegraph (UK) PENGUIN • 592 PAGES • 978-0-14-312213-5 • $20.00 Also Available: Fateful Choices p. 9, Making Friends with Hitler p. 9 RICHARD OVERY 1939 Countdown to War A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history’s greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. “Easily the best account of Europe’s descent into...death and destruction.”—The London Evening Standard “[An] ingenious and enthralling book. 1939: Countdown to War is short but detailed, and it covers no more than the days from August 24 to September 3—but surely there have been few more extraordinary eleven-day periods in history.”—The New Republic “Exceptionally lucid, concise and authoritative.”—The Washington Post PENGUIN • 176 PAGES • 978-0-14-312006-3 • $14.00 Also Available: Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 p. 11 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE (CFIS) Join Penguin Group USA’s College Faculty Information Service for personal assistance and complimentary examination copies. See page 25 for more information or visit www.penguin.com/facinfo 4 HISTORY RICHARD J. EVANS THE COMING OF THE THIRD REICH A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. “Will long remain the definitive English-language account....An impressive achieve- ment.”—The Atlantic Monthly “An enormous work of synthesis—knowledgeable and reliable, and playing to the au- thor’s strengths as it highlights the interconnections between politics and society.”— Mark Mazower, Columbia University “The most comprehensive and convincing work so far on the fall of Weimar and Hitler’s rise to power.”—Foreign Affairs “The generalist reader, it should be emphasized, is well served....The book reads briskly, covers all important areas—social and cultural—and succeeds in its aim of giving voice to the people who lived through the years with which it deals.”—The Denver Post PENGUIN • 656 PAGES • 978-0-14-303469-8 • $20.00 RICHARD J. EVANS THE THIRD REICH IN POWER The definitive account of Germany’s malign transformation under Hitler’s total rule and the implacable march to war. “Fluidly narrated, tightly organized and comprehensive, The Third Reich in Power ex- plains, in thematic chapters, how Hitler, after gaining control of the German govern- ment in 1933, immediately set about transforming the national economy, purging en- emies, reversing the humiliating terms of the Versailles peace treaty and imposing a nationalist-racist ideology on a less than receptive population.”—The New York Times “Brilliantly conveys how the Führer reignited Germans’ pride as he led them to catas- t rop h e .” — The Observer (UK) “A rich and detailed description of just what the Third Reich did in every compartment of the state and every corner of society....Magisterial”—The Economist PENGUIN • 960 PAGES • 978-0-14-303790-3 • $22.00 RICHARD J. EVANS THE THIRD REICH AT WAR The final volume in Evans’s masterly trilogy traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a “people’s community” to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler’s campaign of racial subjugation and genocide. “Not only the finest but also the most riveting account of that period. If any work of accurate history has a chance to correct the distortions of public memory, this is it.”— Walter Reich, The New York Times “It is hard to do justice to the humanity and scholarly range of The Third Reich at War.... This is both a masterful historical narrative and the most comprehensive account of Nazi Germany.”— Nicholas Stargardt, The Times Literary Supplement “A masterpiece of historical scholarship.”—Antony Beevor, The Times (London) PENGUIN • 944 PAGES • 978-0-14-311671-4 • $20.00 Also available: Death in Hamburg, p. 7 5 HISTORY NEW IN PAPERBACK ANTONY BEEVOR BEVIN ALEXANDER THE FALL OF BERLIN 1945 INSIDE THE NAZI WAR MACHINE “The best account yet written on the death knell of Hitler’s vaunted How Three Generals Unleashed Hitler’s Blitzkrieg Thousand Year Reich.”—Carlo D’Este, The New York Times.