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VICTORIAN BRITAIN: An Introduction

For my new Lockdown course beginning on Monday 5th June Victorian Britain 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times', wrote...

German Booklist: East Germany

Beyond the Wall Katja Hoyer East Germany Charles Rivers Editors East Germany Hourly History Growing up in East...

East Germany: 1949-90

It seems, with the benefit of hindsight, very strange to western eyes that in the Eastern half of Germany at the end of The Second World...

West Germany 1949-1990

In the immediate aftermath of The Nazi Third Reich, Germany was divided up between the four victorious Allies (USSR, USA, UK, and France)....

Germany: World War Two

In a sense one can argue that once Hitler took power in 1933 the Second World War was all but inevitable. It is true that few saw that...

THURN & TAXIS

Once a name honoured throughout The Holy Roman, and later Austrian, Empire that no explanation would have been necessary. Today probably...

Latest German History Short Booklist

[For earlier periods of German History see numerous blogs below] Killing Hitler Roger Moorhouse Opposing Hitler (Biography of...

Booklist for German History 1930s

As usual this is a short booklist. All the books below carry bibliographies to take you further. The Third Reich Michael Burleigh...

The Rise of Nazism

How, and why, did Democracy fail in Germany after World War One? And, how did the Nazi Party emerge victorious in 1933? These are the...

The Weimar Republic 1919-1933

Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived...

WILHELMINE GERMANY 1890-1918

Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became...

A Lifetime of Books

As a small child, in the early 1950s, I had a tall bookcase in my bedroom. Initially filled with Enid Blyton's Noddy series, then...

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