Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

5 best books like Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History (Simon Winder): Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War, Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, The Shortest History of Germany

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0316409138

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

In his international...

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War

Author	Lucy Hughes-Hallett
ISBN	0307263932

Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s extraordinary biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, poet, bon vivant, harbinger of Italian fascism.

Gabriele...

Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

Author	Agnès Poirier
ISBN	1627790241

An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris

In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and...

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan

Author	Ben Macintyre
ISBN	0374529574

The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movie

The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before. Soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist, traveler and writer, Josiah Harlan wanted...

The Shortest History of Germany

Author	James Hawes
ISBN	1910400416

The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that immigration and globalisation are the work of a nefarious System, run by unseen masters with no national loyalties. From the Kremlin, Tsar Vladimir...