Learn German with the Augsburg Saga - B2.3 Glass Shards Interlinear German-English Reader

Learn German through story and carefully graded B2-level language - with immediate English support when you need it.

Glass Shards is the third book of the B2 level in the Augsburg Saga. It is written in controlled, natural B2 German and presented in an interlinear German-English format, sentence by sentence. Each German sentence is followed directly by its English translation. The English is accurate and supportive, designed to aid comprehension without replacing the German.

Set in Augsburg between January and summer 1938, this volume follows the Hartwig family as everyday life continues under increasing pressure. Work routines remain intact, shops open and close, cafés stay busy, and family visits go on as usual - yet something has shifted. Conversations become cautious. Trust begins to fracture. Small administrative steps, rumors, and silent observations accumulate.

The story focuses on ordinary decisions made in an extraordinary time: how people adapt, withdraw, comply, or look away - often without dramatic moments, but with lasting consequences. Economic stability, social normalization, and political control exist side by side. What disappears does so quietly.

This book does not dramatize history. Instead, it shows how historical change enters daily life through routine, paperwork, silence, and habit - and how easily normality absorbs exclusion.

What this book offers

• A complete, self-contained story at solid B2 level
• Sentence-by-sentence interlinear German-English support
• Historically grounded, understated narrative prose
• Vocabulary and structures suitable for advanced learners moving toward independent reading

Glass Shards is ideal for learners who want to strengthen advanced reading skills while engaging with precise, realistic historical fiction - and for readers who want to understand how history often unfolds not through spectacle, but through quiet continuity.