Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

10 best books like Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Eric D. Weitz): A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Sonnets to Orpheus, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider, The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic, Goodbye to Berlin

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Author

Orlando Figes

It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant...

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Author	Alfred Döblin
ISBN	3423002956

Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0060735457

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal...

Sonnets to Orpheus

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	0393328856

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...

Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

Author	Lawrence W. Levine
ISBN	0674390776

In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera & vaudeville, America's leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable & dynamic...

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction

Author	Robert J. McMahon
ISBN	0192801783

The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope and intensity of the Cold War. But why did it last so long? And what impact did it have on the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and the Third World? Finally, how did it affect the broader history...

Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

Author	Peter Gay
ISBN	0393322394

First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's...

The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity

Author	Detlev J.K. Peukert
ISBN	0809015560

The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar...

The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

Author	Benjamin Carter Hett
ISBN	1250162505

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen

Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler...

Goodbye to Berlin

Author	Christopher Isherwood
ISBN	0586047956

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again.

In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters,...