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Germany: The Long Road West
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 first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich', which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. 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. With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.
Germany: The Long Road West
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.
Germany: 1933-1990
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 neighbors. This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the "Reich," which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. 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. With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.
The Age of Catastrophe
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.
Germany
This volume begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich,' which was to experience so fateful a renaissance in the 20th century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. The author offers a synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights.
Werte und Mächte
Heinrich August Winklers vierbändige "Geschichte des Westens" ist ein vielfach gerühmtes Meisterwerk der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung und mit rund 150.000 verkauften Exemplaren zugleich ein eindrucksvoller Bucherfolg. Doch nicht jeder kann die gewaltigen Dimensionen dieser vieltausendseitigen Gesamtdarstellung bewältigen. Deshalb hat der große Historiker diese einbändige Weltgeschichte geschrieben, die den Weg des Westens von den Anfängen in der Antike bis in unsere unmittelbare Gegenwart erzählt und zugleich die großen Deutungslinien prägnant herausarbeitet. "Heinrich August Winkler stellt die Fragen an die Geschichte, die uns bei der Lösung der gegenwärtigen Probleme umtreiben. In einer Welt, die aus den Fugen zu geraten scheint, vermittelt uns seine monumentale Erzählung der Geschichte des Westens originelle Einblicke und Denkanstöße." Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Bundespräsident
Zerreissproben
Mit seiner «Geschichte des Westens», deren abschließender vierter Band «Die Zeit der Gegenwart» zum SPIEGEL-Bestseller geworden ist, hat Heinrich August Winkler den aktuellen politischen Diskussionen eine unverzichtbare Grundlage gegeben. Der renommierte Historiker mischt sich aber auch immer wieder selbst mit «Interventionen» in das Zeitgeschehen ein. Ob Winkler die Feder kritisch, polemisch oder ironisch spitzt – stets sind seine Lageanalysen und Urteile fundiert, klar verständlich und pointiert. Dieser Band versammelt seine wichtigsten Beiträge aus den vergangenen 25 Jahren.
In Search of Germany
Much that has happened in the world since 1989 gives cause for elation, but there is also much that gives reason for alarm. The euphoria that attended the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism has been compromised by tragic events in recent years, such as the bitter ethnic rivalries in Yugoslavia, the civil war in Rwanda, and the terrorist bombings in New York City and Oklahoma City. In Search of Germany seeks to accomplish three purposes: to initiate a review of the whole of the post-World War II period and consider what actually happened in the Federal Republic and in the German Democratic Republic during those forty years; to acknowledge that the present "age of anx...
