Burghart Klaußner Book order (chronological)

Berlin April 1945 - es sind die letzten Stunden, bevor die Hölle losbricht und der Häuserkampf beginnt. Die letzten Tage, bevor alles vorbei ist: die Schüsse, das Gebrüll, die Befehle und die Angst. Aber vorher müssen Fritz und Schultz noch einen Auftrag erfüllen. Und der führt sie mitten hinein ins Zentrum der Gefahr. Der großartige Schauspieler Burghart Klaußner erzählt von zwei Männern, die es geschafft haben, den Krieg zu überleben, indem sie den Kopf unten hielten. Und die es auf den letzten Metern doch noch kalt erwischt: Sie erhalten den Auftrag, die Geldkasse ihrer Einheit ins Reichsluftfahrtministerium zu bringen. Nach Berlin-Mitte – einmal quer durch die zerbombte Stadt. Und das einzige Beförderungsmittel, das sie haben, sind ihre klapprigen Fahrräder … »Vor dem Anfang« ist ein kraftvoller Roman über Freundschaft, über das Ende einer Welt und die Hoffnung auf einen Neubeginn. Voller Düsterkeit, aber auch Wärme und feinem Humor.

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life. 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan 'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby INTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN

Classic / British English Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at night!

When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. From the Booker-shortlisted author of 'Shroud' and 'The Book of Evidence'.

Comprehensive audio-documentation based on Guido Knopp's award-winning works. Includes witness reports, original audio recordings and dialogues spoken by German actors and Guido Knopp.