Soccer Books, Part Two-German National team

The best books about the History of the German National Team.

These are the books I have chosen is:

Book I

‘Chronik des deutschen fussballs’

Published in 2005.

Written Language: German

This book has every National team lineup with the relevant dates and information from 1908 to the Confederations Cup of 2005.

The information includes both West and East Germany and unified.

There is brief description of many of the matches, though not every match.

There are many archival photographs in black and white and color.

At the end there’s an index of all German National team players (East and West)

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Book II

‘Deutschlands Fussball Landerspiele, Eine Dokumentation von 1908-1989’

Published in 1989.

Written Language: German

This book has in depth descriptions of every match played by West Germany from 1908 to May 31, 1989.

Full statistical information is given about each match, with dates, team’s lineups, players club information, etc.

The archival photographs are in black and white.

At the end there’s an index of all German (West) National team players

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Book III

‘Deutschlands Fussball Nationalspieler, Das Lexicon’

Author Jurgen Bitter

Written Language: German

This is not a statistical book about matches and results.

This book has a brief biography of every German national Team player with some photographs.

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Book IV

‘Die Geschichte der Fussball Nationalmanschaft’

Author Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (Hrsg)

Published in 2004.

Written Language: German

This is also not a statistical book about matches and results.

This is a written history of the German national team with archival Black and White photographs.

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Book V

‘Fussball in der DDR 1945-1989 Teil 2 Nationalmannschaft’

Author Klaus Querengaesser

Written Language: German

This book contains all East Germany national team lineups.

Full statistical information is given about each match, with dates, team’s lineups, etc, with a brief description of the match.

At the end there’s an index of all East German National team players

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Book VI

‘Kicker, 100 Jahre Deutsche landerspiele’

Written Language: German

Kicker published a special Edition in 2005 about the History of the German National team.

With Write ups , interviews, archival Photographs (Black and White and color) and all the relevant statistical information.

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Book VII

‘The best of enemies, England V Germany’

Author David Downing

Written Language: English

This book deals exclusively with the unique history and the matches between England and Germany National teams with archivals photographs.

If any one knows of other books pertaining to this topic, please do not hesitate to leave a post.