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

'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd

'History at its very best – and a fabulous translation, too' Graham Hurley

In March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinrich Bruning, bespectacled and scholarly leader of the Catholic Centre Party, to form a government. Some three years later, in January 1933, Hindenburg appointed as chancellor the demagogic, ...