An Observer Book of the Year, 2024This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now. John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why The Germans Do It BetterVertigo is outstanding. Harald Jhners gift for illuminating the big picture with telling detail gives the reader an uncanny sense of what it was actually like to be present in Germany during the Weimar Republic. This is history at its very best. Julia Boyd, bestselling author of Travellers in the Third ReichGermany, 1918 a country in flux. The First World War is over, the nation defeated. Revolution is afoot, the monarchy has fallen and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times.Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launches an unprecedented political project its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic is established. The years that follow see political extremism, economic upheaval, revolutionary violence and the transformation of Germany. Tradition is shaken to its core as a triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges. Women conquer the racetracks and tennis courts, go out alone in the evenings, cut their hair short and cast the idea of marriage aside. Unisex style comes into fashion, androgynous and experimental. People revel in the discovery of leisure, filling up boxing...

Binding: Hardback;480 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 844 g; Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 42

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