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1) Munich
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September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
3) Munich
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SHADOWSEER: MUNICH continues the story of Kaia, 17, an orphan coming-of-age, in the Victorian Europe of the 1850s. Kaia yearns to escape her horrific orphanage, to discover who her parents were, and to understand why she can sense shadows when others cannot. When the brilliant Detective Pinsley, 45, takes Kaia under his wing and enlists her help in solving the mysterious and bizarre murders sweeping over Europe, the two of them become unlikely partners.
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On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich with the German chancellor Adolf Hitler and was greeted with a hero's welcome. As he paused on the aircraft steps, he held aloft the piece of paper, bearing both his and the Fuhrer's signatures, that contained the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with each other again. Later that evening, from his upstairs window at...
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Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages' tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in...
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"Steffie Shroeder has a normal life and is weeks away from graduating the military academy in Munich. Her world is shattered when a badly wounded black man jumps into her car in a mall parking lot. Before he dies, the man gives her an envelope and instructions to follow. The envelope contains information on a Nazi looter who fled to the United States and made a name for himself. Only one person knows his true identity and he is determined to silence...
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"An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him that his sister Miriam has been found dead of starvation in her Berlin apartment. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American Consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet and returned to America"--
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Get ready to embark on an enchanting journey through the vibrant city of Munich with this meticulously crafted guide. It seamlessly combines the historic charm of the past with the alluring contemporary attractions of today. Prepare to discover the true essence of this captivating city by exploring must-visit destinations such as Marienplatz, Nymphenburg Palace, and the iconic Hofbräuhaus.
This guide goes beyond surface-level information and provides...
10) Munich Wolf
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Munich, 1935. The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars. What they don't see-or choose to ignore-is the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement, which considers Munich its spiritual home. When a high-born English girl is murdered, Detective Sebastian Wolff is ordered to solve the crime. Wolff is already walking a tight line between doing his job and falling...
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Vous aimez découvrir de nouvelles villes?
Alors, bienvenue à Munich, la capitale de la Bavière, une magnifique ville, remplie d'histoire, de culture et de belles choses à découvrir! Vous voulez découvrir l'histoire, rencontrer des gens chaleureux et déguster une gastronomie variée avec des des desserts délicieux? Vous aimez l'architecture? Alors, Munich and ses alentours sont pour vous! En fait, nous espérons que notre eGuide Voyage vous...
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Fiction based on fact, this a story of the search by the Germans and British to establish how far the other has reached in the development of a jet-engined fighter plane prior to WW2. In UK, the Germans use a dissident South-African-born engineer who lost both parents in the Boer War and harbours a resentment against the British government. Dogged police work eventually exposes him. In Germany, the British lose their experienced agent and are forced...
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Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father's war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did-that her mother and Hitler's mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna's.
Plunged into the world of the "ordinary" Munich girl who was her mother's confidante-and a tyrant's lover-Anna...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
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It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...