Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 1: 1789-1933 Winkler Heinrich August
Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 1: 1789-1933 Winkler Heinrich August Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a…
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Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 1: 1789-1933 Winkler Heinrich August
Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours.This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich', which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy.
He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception.With a second volume that takes the story up to