This 500-year history challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more complicated than most twentieth-century historians have imagined. Taking the reader from the earliest glimmers of nationhood in the 1500s, through the meteoric rise of the Nazi Pary and World War II, to the modern period of centrism and even pacifism, the author shows a nation in a constant state of reinvention--of its government and society, of its art and culture, and its attitudes towards nationalism. Richly illustrated with original maps throughout.
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