GERMANY

 
The Wall
Christopher Hilton
A history of the wall and how it affected people, based on interviews
 
The Third Reich: a new history
Michael Burleigh
Remarkable chronicle of the Nazi era
 
The tin drum
 
Gunter Grass
Magically realist social commentary by Germany's Nobel prize winner
 
The lost honour of Katharina Blum
 
Heinrich Boll
The author's best known book is a parody of public life in West Germany
See also The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui
 
Simple stories: a novel
 
Ingo Schulze

Superb, witty, moving short stories of life's struggles in the former East Germany