Germany: The Long Road West - Volume 2: 1933-1990

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, this second and final volume of Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany takes us from the downfall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 to reunification in 1990. Winkler brilliantly synthesizes complex events and illuminates them with fascinating new research.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The German Catastrophe 1933-45


• 2: Democracy and Dictatorship 1945-1961


• 3: Two States, One Nation 1961-1973


• 4: Rapprochment and Estrangement 1973-1989


• 5: Unity in Freedom 1989-90


• Farewell to Separate Paths: looking back and looking ahead

About the author

Heinrich August Winkler was born in 1938 in Königsberg. He studied history, philosophy, and public law in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Münster. He was associate professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1970-72 and then professor of modern history in Freiburg until 1991. He has been at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin since 1992, and has been a visiting scholar in Princeton, at the Wilson Center in Washington, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, and at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich.

Summary

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, this second and final volume of Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany takes us from the downfall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 to reunification in 1990. Winkler brilliantly synthesizes complex events and illuminates them with fascinating new research.

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an impressive accomplishment... very much worth reading

Product details

• Authors: Editor, WINKLER, Heinrich August Winkler, Heinrich August (Emeritus Professor of Mo Winkler, Heinrich August (Humboldt University Berl Winkler, Winkler Heinrich August
• Assisted by: Alexander Sager (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2022
• EAN: 9780192884626
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288462-6
• No. of pages: 704
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / Modern / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1910 to c 1919