Fatherland

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Amy J. Elias

"In Sublime Desire, Amy J. Elias examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction written since 1960 reflects that change. She contends that postmodernism is a post-traumatic imagination that is pulled between two desires: the political desire to acknowledge the physical violence of twentieth-century history and the yearning for an escape from that history into a ravishing realm of historical certainty. Torn between these desires, both historical fiction and historiography after 1960 redefine history as the "sublime," a territory beyond lived experience that is both unknowable and seductive. In the face of a failure of Enlightenment ideals about knowledge and the West's own history of violence, post-World War II history becomes a desire for the "secular sacred" sublime - for awe, certainty, and belief."--BOOK JACKET.

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Günter Grass

A couple from Gdansk has a unique idea for a business: selling cemetery plots in Gdansk to Germans who were exiled after WWII.

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Tony Johnston

Separated from his parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy enslaved in a concentration camp, keeps hope alive while playing Schubert on his harmonica whenever the camp's commandant orders him to play.

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created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg

The "forgotten Clancy novel," SSN is a complete submarine warfare novel with maps, photos, and a special interview with Tom Clancy and former submarine commander Doug Littlejohns America is at war! China has invaded the oil-rich Spratly islands. The American response has been swift - and deadly. And the Third World War has begun... Captain Bartholomew Mackey is the skipper of the *USS Cheyenne*, a nuclear submarine that thas been dispached to the Spratlys to protect a carrier group. But in a few moments, the *Cheyenne's* mission - and the world - willchange, as a tense situation explodes into a full-scale war of nightmarish proportions. *SSN* is a compelling blend of military fact and fiction - a submarine combat thriller complete with stirring plots and characters, perfectly accurate details, and the chilling knowledge that it really could happen... Based upon the compter simulation game.