Ein knapp gehaltenes, gut lesbares Buch zur deutschen Geschichte. Hagen Schulze schlägt einen weiten Bogen von den frühesten Anfängen im römischen Germanien bis zum heutigen wiedervereinigten Deutschland. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Historischen Museum wurden die Abbildungen des Bandes ausgewählt, die den Text hervorragend ergänzen.

Autorentext
Hagen Schulze is Director of the German Historical Institute, London and Professor of European History at the Free University of Berlin.

Klappentext

Conveying the full sweep of German history from the Romans to the fall of theBerlin Wall, the author explains Germany's past and present with lavish colorillustrations and halftones and an elegantly written text. Maps & tables.

Zusammenfassung
In one concise volume, Hagen Schulze brilliantly conveys the full sweep of German history, from the days of the Romans to the fall of the Berlin Wall. A lavish array of illustrations provides a lively counterpoint to Schulze's elegantly written narrative.

Inhalt
The Roman empire and German lands (to 1400); transitions (1400-1648); twilight of the empire (1648-1806); the birth of the German nation (1806-1848); blood and iron (1848-1871); German possibilities - a digression; a nation state in the centre of Europe (1871-1890); internal unification and the dream of world power (1890-1914); the Great War and its aftermath (1914-1923); Weimar - brief glory and decline (1924-1933); German megalomania (1933-1942); the end of the Third Reich and a new beginning (1942-1949); a divided nation (1949-1990); epilogue - what is the German's fatherland?.