GERMANY

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Iron Chancellor
3. Chapter Two - The Kaiser’s War
4. Chapter Three - The Lost Republic
5. Chapter Four - The Rise of the Reich
6. Chapter Five - World War II
7. Chapter Six - Ashes and Division
8. Chapter Seven - The Wall Goes Up
9. Chapter Eight - Wirtschaftswunder
10. Chapter Nine - The 1989 Miracle
11. Chapter Ten - The German Handshake
12. Chapter Eleven - Mutti Merkel
13. Chapter Twelve - Europe’s Anchor
14. Chapter Thirteen - Made in Germany
15. Chapter Fourteen - Ghosts That Won’t Die
16. Chapter Fifteen - The New German Question

Excerpt

PROLOGUE GERMANY HAS ALWAYS been a contradiction. It’s the country of Beethoven and Auschwitz. The land of Kant and Hitler. The birthplace of the printing press and book burning. A place that gave the world its sharpest thinkers and its darkest violence. There is no country more brilliant. No country more brutal. And no country that has ever tried harder to live with both. Before it was a powerhouse, it was a patchwork. Before it was a democracy, it was an empire. Before it was the moral conscience of Europe, it was the thing Europe feared most. Twice in a single century, Germany tried to take the world by force. Twice, it nearly tore the planet in half. And then, somehow, it came back. Not...