EAN: 9780753557884

AFTERMATH - HARALD JÄHNER KARTONIERT (TB)

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***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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