Germany: A Short History - Softcover

"Succeeds remarkably well, both be-cause the text is clear and well organized and because it is admirably supported with 12 pages of excellent maps, a chronology that is a summary rather than a mere list of dates, and a lengthy and up-to-date bibliographical essay. The book can thus serve a number of purposes, from providing the layman with a general introduction to German history to furnishing someone whose interests lie, say, in music or litera-ture with the essential political back-ground."--Library Journal

A brilliant survey--from Roman Germania to Bonn's recent reconciliation with Moscow--this up-to-date and authoritative new work provides a much-needed guide to modern German history. The German quest for national unity and power, which led to the establishment of the Hohenzollern Empire under Bis-marck in the nineteenth century and the catastrophe of the Third Reich under Hitler in the twentieth, is placed in the context of German history since antiq-uity in this concise interpretive survey. Addressed to the general reader inter-ested in European history and interna-tional relations, it will also be useful to students, journalists, librarians, and anyone needing a lucid introduction to the background of postwar Germany and its role in the contemporary world. This concise account of the impact of complex factors in the Middle Ages and early modern period on the course of more recent German history is comple-mented with a dozen original maps, a brief chronology, and a selected bibliog-raphy.