Ebook: Germany, 1866-1945

This is the history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lastedonly 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870, and ended in the rubbleof Hitler's regime.Craig not only analyses the political structures of and the foreign, social, andeconomic policies of successive governments, but also examines the individualswho dominated the period and the important intellectual and cultural influencesat work. His fascinating chapter on the rich diversity of Weimar culture - Mannand Hesse, Marlene Deitrich and film, Brecht, Schonberg, Expressionist art, andthe growth of psychoanalytic theory - is proof enough that this is not anordinary history book.