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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. It is the
story of a country that, while always culturally identified with
the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its
neighbours. This second and final volume begins at the point of the
collapse of the first German democracy, and ends with the joining
of East and West Germany in the reunification of 1990. Winkler
offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them
with fresh insights. 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. The two volumes of Germany: The Long Road West,
exploring the history of the German lands from the final days of
the Holy Roman Empire to the very first of a reunified state in the
late twentieth century, will be welcomed by scholars, students, and
anyone wishing to understand a most complex and contradictory past.
One of Germany's leading historians presents an ambitious and
masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars
Characterized by global war, political revolution and national
crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most
horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of
modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why
Germany so radically broke with the normative project of the West
and unleashed devastation across the world. In this total history
of the thirty years between the start of World War One and the
dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Winkler blends
historical narrative with political analysis and encompasses
military strategy, national identity, class conflict, economic
development and cultural change. The book includes astutely
observed chapters on the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, and
the other European powers, and Winkler's distinctly European
perspective offers insights beyond the accounts written by his
British and American counterparts. As Germany takes its place at
the helm of a unified Europe, Winkler's fascinating account will be
widely read and debated for years to come.
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