Katja Hoyer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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🇬🇧🇩🇪 Historian & journalist. Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. FRHistS. Columnist for The Washington Post. Previous book: Blood and Iron.
Berlin
Rory MacLeanKatja Hoyer@adam_prestwich @mrchrisaddison I hope you don't mind if I do recommend my Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990, even if it's not just about (East) Berlin. I'd also recommend Berlin by Sinclair McKay or by Rory MacLean. @fredvallier and @Iain_MacGregor1 have both written great books about the Berlin Wall.
Paperback, 2015
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Appendix: The Mark. Preface: Karl Marx)
Frederick EngelsKatja HoyerWhen your Sat Nav tells you in British English to 'Stay on Friedrich-Engels-Straße then turn left into 'Karl-Marx-Straße' and you have your biography summed up right there 😅🇬🇧🇩🇪 https://t.co/XQeEYwvcdA
Paperback, 2006
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Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Sinclair McKayKatja Hoyer@adam_prestwich @mrchrisaddison I hope you don't mind if I do recommend my Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990, even if it's not just about (East) Berlin. I'd also recommend Berlin by Sinclair McKay or by Rory MacLean. @fredvallier and @Iain_MacGregor1 have both written great books about the Berlin Wall.
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Vanquished
Robert GerwarthKatja Hoyer@D16584667 Robert Gerwarth - The Vanquished. Takes a fascinating wide-angle view on post-war violence.
Paperback, 2017
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The nightmare: Novel
Hans FalladaKatja Hoyer#OTD in 1943, Elise and Otto Hampel were executed in Plötzensee Prison. They had written postcards with messages against Hitler and distributed them near their home in the working class district of Wedding, Berlin. Their story inspired Hans Fallada's novel 'Alone in Berlin'. https://t.co/FojxwOyqof
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfKatja Hoyer"Forget Paris..the real revolution in the 1790s happened in Jena, a quiet German university town" Immensely looking forward to reading @andrea_wulf's Magnificent Rebels, not least because their ghosts seemed to linger everywhere when I studied in Jena a couple of centuries later! https://t.co/fidBB1Q2zR
Paperback, 2023
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl MarxKatja Hoyer#OTD in 1848, the Communist Manifesto was published in London. In the 23-page pamphlet, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels analysed what they saw as inherent conflicts of capitalism & called upon workers to unite & overthrow the system. It hit Europe on the eve of the 1848 revolutions. https://t.co/EZyL1jXGRL
Paperback, Mass Market, 2011
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Berlin
Joseph PearsonKatja HoyerWhen his 🇨🇦 grandfather's captured nazi knife unexpectedly turned up in Berlin, it seemed to have come full circle. Joseph Pearson set out to uncover its remarkable WWII story👇 @EngelsbergIdeas @TheHistoryPress @Joseph_Writing https://t.co/olwMZoed81
Paperback, 2017
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
Halik KochanskiKatja HoyerDespair descended over Europe as country after country fell to Nazi Germany’s rapacious conquest. Occupation became a fact of life. So why did some resist when most did not? Halik Kochanski’s 'Resistance' finds compelling answers. My review @washingtonpost https://t.co/dRoFMopg0J
Hardcover, 2022
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl MarxKatja Hoyer#OTD in 1848, the Communist Manifesto was published in London. In the 23-page pamphlet, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels analysed what they saw as inherent conflicts of capitalism & called upon workers to unite & overthrow the system. It hit Europe on the eve of the 1848 revolutions. https://t.co/EZyL1jXGRL
Paperback, 1998
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