Vertigo - The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Harald Jahner (Author) Harald Jahner is a cultural journalist and former editor of the Berliner Zeitung . He was also an honorary professor of cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts. His book Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich was shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in the UK and won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-Fiction in his native Germany. Shaun Whiteside (Translator) Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from French, German, Italian and Dutch. His most recent translations from German include Aftermath by Harald Jahner, To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann, Swansong 1945 by Walter Kempowski, Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein and The Broken House by Horst Kruger.

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The Weimar Republic is a byword for hedonism and excess. A new history captures the mood with gusto ... For obvious reasons most histories of the Weimar years are dominated by politics, with Hitler and his cronies lurking ominously on the margins. But Jähner's account is more unconventional, more surprising and, frankly, more enjoyable ... I enjoyed it enormously. Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Harald Jahner, Harald Jähner
• Assisted by: Shaun Whiteside (Translation), Whiteside Shaun (Translation)
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 02.01.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780753559987
• ISBN: 978-0-7535-5998-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Germany, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, General and world history, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General