From one of our most distinguished historians comes a sweeping,
original, and provocative history of Germany, from antiquity to the
present, shedding a fresh, empathetic light on the nation and its
people. A Mighty Fortress is a work of penetrating, virtuoso
scholarship that holds a mirror to an entire civilization - - one
that has been alternately Western Europe's most successful and most
perilous. It boldly examines Germany's tumultuous twentieth century
in light of its earliest achievements as a prosperous, civil, and
moral society, tracing a line of continuity that began in ancient
times and has endured through the ages, despite its enemies and
itself. The book tells the story of the well-known men -- Luther,
Kant, and Beethoven, Marx, Bismarck, and Hitler -- to the masses of
ordinary Germans. The Germans are a people who desire national
unity, yet have always kept themselves from it by aligning with
autocratic territorial governments and regional cultures.Indeed,
Germans living centuries apart have shared in different ways a
common defining experience that is unique to their culture: a
convergence of external provocation, wounded pride, and an unusual
ability to exercise great power in response to both. Ozment
captures the soul of a nation that is at once ordered and chaotic,
disciplined and obsessive, proud and uncertain. Epic in scope,
refreshing in its insights, and written with nuance, acumen, and
verve, it presents the history of the German people as the story of
humanity writ large.
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