Product Description

An original and compelling account of Germany's emergence from the catastrophe of World War II.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #260160 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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About the Author
Richard Bessel is Professor of Twentieth Century History at the University of York. He works on the social and political history of modern Germany, the aftermath of the two world wars and the history of policing. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of German History and History Today. His books include Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism, Germany after the First World War and Nazism and War.

Customer Reviews

An excellent book
I couldn't disagree more with the previous reviewer. I am one of the first people to be put off by dry books crammed with figures statistics.
This is a highly readable study by a professional historian of German descent of 1945....the last months of the war in Germany and the first months of the allied occupation and the process of rebuilding a modern state out of the ruins.
Figures are used with skill to portray the apocalyptic scale of the problem and the extent of the destruction and dislocation.
Eg 450,000 German soldiers were killed in January 1945 (more by a considerable margin than the military losses of the western allies throughout the whole war).

germany 1945
A rather dry book with many, many statistics that tended to obscure the narrative thrust.