The Shortest History of Germany: From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel-A Retelling for Our Times

2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE RIVETING AFTERNOON



A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871-yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy.



"There's no point studying the past unless it sheds some light on the present," writes James Hawes in this brilliantly concise history th...