Out of the Darkness - The Germans, 1942-2022

Trentmann tells the dramatic story of the Germans from the middle of the Second World War, through the Cold War and the division into East and West, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunited nation''s search for a place in the world. Their journey is marked by extraordinary moral struggles: guilt, shame and limited amends; wealth versus welfare; tolerance versus racism; compassion and complicity. Through a range of voices - German soldiers and German Jews; environmentalists and coal miners; families and churches; volunteers, migrants and populists - Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait over 80 years of the conflicted people at the centre of Europe.

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I could not put the book down. The way Frank Trentmann writes history, the way he brings together things great and small, analysis with narrative, is wonderful Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader

Product details

• Authors: Frank Trentmann, Trentmann Frank
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780141985848
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198584-8
• No. of pages: 880
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germany, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Society & culture: general, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Second World War, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General