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A Mighty Fortress. A New History of the German People

Door Steven E. Ozment

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#268804
Titel
A Mighty Fortress. A New History of the German People
Auteur
Ozment, Steven E.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London, Granta Books
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
1862077738
ISBN13
9781862077737
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Award-winning historian Steven Ozment gives us the fullest portrait possible of the German nation, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization - one that has been alternately Western Europe's most successful and most perilous. Taking us from the tribes of the Roman Empire and the medieval dynasties to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, Ozment shows that the Germans are a people who desire national unity yet have kept themselves from it by aligning with autocratic territorial governments and regional cultures. From Luther, Kant, Goethe, and Beethoven to Marx, Einstein and Hitler, the country's leading figures have always tried to become more than ordinary mortals. Ozment brilliantly captures the soul of a nation that is at once ordered and chaotic, disciplined and obsessive, p... (Lees verder)roud and uncertain.
Pagina's
400
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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