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The Shortest History of Germany

The Shortest History of Germany

From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel-A Retelling for Our Times

by James Hawes
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 19/03/2019

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2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE RIVETING AFTERNOON

A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871-yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy.

"There's no point studying the past unless it sheds some light on the present," writes James Hawes in this brilliantly concise history that has already captivated hundreds of thousands of readers. "It is time, now more than ever, for us all to understand the real history of Germany."
ISBN:
9781618031280
9781618031280
Category:
European history
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
19-03-2019
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
137x163x27mm
Weight:
0.08kg
James Hawes

James Hawes was born in 1960. He read German at Oxford University, where he was allowed to hold the original manuscript of Kafka's Das Schloss.

After completing a PhD on Nietzsche, he lectured in German Studies at various universities, leaving academia in 1996 when his first two novels, A White Merc with Fins and Rancid Aluminium, became bestsellers.

German culture called him back with Excavating Kafka, then Englanders and Huns, which was shortlisted for the Political Books of the Year awards in 2015.

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