Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33

ISBN-13: 9781800242272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str.

Peter Walther

Opis

A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the Nazi takeover.

A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the Nazi takeover.

Recenzje

'Gripping both as German history and as a timely warning for us all of how otherwise sane people can fatally overestimate the survivability of democracy, and keep scrabbling for petty advantage even as the darkness gather' James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of Germany

O autorze

Peter Walther is the author of a bestselling biography of Hans Fallada. He studied German and art history and gained his doctorate in 1995. He has worked as a curator for numerous literary exhibitions and co-founded the Literaturport website with Ulrich Janetzski. He heads the Brandenburg Literary Office in Potsdam with Hendrik Roder.