Germany: Memories of a Nation
5 best books like Germany: Memories of a Nation (Neil MacGregor): The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, The Shortest History of Germany
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
| Author | Frederick Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060786132 |
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became...
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679772537 |
Having read this first in 2011, I decided to read it again. I've learned a fair bit about the period since then, and so better appreciate the virtues and limits of this volume.
It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its...
| Author | Simon Winder |
| ISBN | 0374254001 |
A unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner
Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon...
| Author | Christopher Clark |
| ISBN | 0674023854 |
Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...
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...
