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My dear Krauts

Unter Teutonen

Bissig, humorvoll und fast ohne Vorurteile erzählt Times-Korrespondent Roger Boyes von Eigenarten des deutschen Alltags, von Liebesabenteuern mit germanischen Frauen und anderen denkwürdigen Erlebnissen in einem wahrlich exotischen Land. Eine rasante, pointenreiche Sittenkomödie in bester angelsächsischer Tradition.

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How to be a Kraut

You can say you to me

Roger Boyes hat die Deutschen lange studiert und weiß: Die “Krauts” sind anders – und waren es schon immer. Ihren Urlaub verbringen sie am liebsten kurzbehost, in ihrer Freizeit wetteifern sie um die Meisterschaft im Mülltrennen und im Beruf gehen sie mit Vorliebe einer Disziplin namens Besserwisserei nach. Oh dear! Mit lakonischem Humor und scharfer Beobachtungsgabe entlarvt Boyes all jene Marotten und Absonderlichkeiten der Deutschen, die sie so unverwechselbar machen. Ein unentbehrliches Handbuch für alle, die glauben, Deutschland bereits zu kennen.

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A year in the Scheisse

Getting to Know the Germans

‘I’m afraid it doesn’t look good!’
Dr von Landauer’s reedy voice came drifting out of his office. His door, leather-padded to muffle financial secrets, was slightly ajar. The secretary looked disturbed, scratching the inside of her ear with a biro in a most unattractive manner.

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Schauplatz Berlin

by Iris Czak (Author), Marei Wenzel (Author), Roger Boyes (Author)

Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Peperoni Werbe- und Multimediaagentur GmbH (Nov 2007)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 3980967727
ISBN-13: 978-3980967723

Seduced by Hitler

by Adam Lebor (Author), Roger Boyes (Author)

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc; Reprint edition (16 Feb 2007)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 1570718458
ISBN-13: 978-1570718458

Sezon Na Europe

by Roger Boyes and Piotr Cywinski

Hardcover
Publisher: Czytelnik (2003)
Language: Polish

ISBN: 8307029333 / 9788307029337 / 83-07-02933-3

Surviving Hitler: Choices, Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich

by Adam LeBor (Author), Roger Boyes (Author)

Synopsis
The authors here provide a radical examination of the relationship between the Nazi Party and those it sought to seduce and control. There are some historians who argue that the Gestapo regime was a reign of terror that forced German citizens and others to collaborate with the Nazi rulers. Other historians argue that the German people were programmed for genocide by centuries of anti-Semitism. The authors here believe neither view is correct. They argue that to understand how the Holocaust could have happened the reader and historian need to step back into the heart of daily life in the Third Reich. This book draws on contemporary research and declassified documents to show life for the average citizen, and uncovers examples of protest as well as eager complicity. It examines how many really knew about the extermination camps and ask how ideologically driven was the Holocaust? The text illustrates life in Germany and its conquered territories under the Nazi regime, and gives an explanation of how mass murder could be accepted by a supposedly civilized nation.

From the Author
Life (and death) in the 3rd Reich and their ethical dilemmas
Our aim in Surviving Hitler is to step back in time to the heart of the Third Reich – including occupied countries such as France and Holland as well as Germany itself – and illustrate the range and depth of ethical and moral dilemmas under Nazism. Our research shows that the price of civic courage, of taking a stand against terror – even if just on a personal level – was not always as high as has been believed.
We have used a variety of sources to illustrate daily life and death in the Nazi era. These include declassified intelligence and diplomatic documents; our own extensive interviews with survivors from Poland, Germany, Israel, the United States and Hungary; and other little-known material.
Our aim is to focus the reader’s attention on the question of moral courage, and to consider the question of how ordinary people react under extraordinary pressure. While there are many worthwhile works of scholarship examining the role of the Nazi leadership, Surviving Hitler focuses more on the incredible pressures that Nazism exerted on individuals and how they reacted.
To this end we have tried to use as much original first hand material as possible. Surviving Hitler includes for example a dramatic first hand account of the secret negotiations in wartime Budapest between the Zionist leadership and Adolf Eichmann; the story of a young German woman who was an inmate at the Theresienstadt concentration camp the day the Red Cross arrived; how a group of central Asian Jews living in Paris bribed the SS to reclassify them as Muslims, and an account of the extraordinary life of Albert Goering, brother of Hermann, who saved dozens of Jews and anti-Nazis.
We hope that readers will find Surviving Hitler as engrossing to read, as we did to research and write. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books; New Ed edition (4 Feb 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671022636
ISBN-13: 978-0671022631

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (16 Oct 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684858118
ISBN-13: 978-0684858111

Nagi prezydent: Zycie polityczne Lecha Walesa

by Roger Boyes (Author)

Unknown Binding: 369 pages
Publisher: Aneks (1995)
Language: Polish

ISBN-10: 1897962118
ISBN-13: 978-1897962114

The Naked President: Political Life of Lech Walesa

by Roger Boyes (Author)

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Secker & Warburg (26 Sep 1994)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 0436200554
ISBN-13: 978-0436200557

The Hard Road to Market: Gorbatchev, The Underworld and the Rebirth of Capitalism

by Roger Boyes (Author)

Synopsis
An account of how black markets in the Soviet Union are being transformed into the driving force of economic reform. The author examines daily life in the Soviet bloc, arguing that almost every transaction – from housing and education to the health service – involves the black market.

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Secker & Warburg (29 Oct 1990)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 0436059363
ISBN-13: 978-0436059360