Non-Fiction Spring 2023

Hunger, fear and hard labour were part of everyday life for the roughly 35 million people who were POWs during the Second World War. Among them were more than 11 million Germans, some of whom did...

Joseph Goebbels used his February 1943 address at Berlin’s Sportpalast to incite a fervently pro-war German "people’s community". It was a perfect example of perfidious Nazi propaganda – but for ...

When the Reichstag burnt down in 1933, Adolf Hitler had only been Chancellor for four weeks. In the subsequent hours and days, thousands were arrested and terror spread throughout the country. Ye...

When we think of wilderness, we think of places like forests filled with an abundance of wild plants – landscapes that show no trace of human civilisation. After all, man and primordial nature ar...

A wood is much more than merely a collection of trees: in this book, Germany’s most renowned forester Wohlleben and the highly acclaimed biologist Ibisch have come together for the first time to ...

The catastrophe happens over coffee and cake: on a visit to his mother’s childhood friend in March 1943, Karlrobert Kreiten, a consummate 26-year-old pianist with a promising future ahead of him,...

Some of them were just nineteen or twenty years old when they joined the Berlin resistance to fight Hitler and Nazi propaganda. In 1942, the group, led by electrician Herbert Baum, organised an a...

Turtles can do amazing things: some can dive to more than 1,000 metres, others transport organisms across the seas (and thus contribute to their distribution), others act as "architects of the oc...

Thirty-one-year-old hunter and vintner Shanna’s life is both idyllic and challenging – such as when she and her dachshund Henriette climb to the raised hide before dawn on chilly winter mornings;...

Reuter has been reporting from Afghanistan for twenty years. Hardly any other foreign reporter knows the country as well as he does. He was in Kabul when the Taliban seized power in August 2021, ...