EAN: 9780753557884

AFTERMATH - HARALD JÄHNER KARTONIERT (TB)

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR
NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE
CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE*** A Book of the Year The Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New
Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent * Daily Mail 'A masterpiece' SPECTATOR
'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of
vision to write' MAX HASTINGS  SUNDAY TIMES 'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the
nature of humanity to be learnt here' TELEGRAPH Germany  1945: a country in ruins. Cities have
been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do
not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich  journalist and member of the Nazi resistance  warms herself by a
makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips
the city. The Americans send Hans Habe  an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army
soldier  to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper
empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to
the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness  but faces a
deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. Aftermath is a nuanced panorama of a
nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw  wild decade poised between two
eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us
imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany -
some beautiful  some revelatory  some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a
society corrupted  demoralised and freed - all at the same time.

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