Publisher's Synopsis
The story of how the German Empire, founded under Bismarck in 1871, moved inexorably through the Kaiser's Germany, the First World War, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich to its inevitable destruction in 1945.;Sebastian Haffner looks back in passion but without anger at these fateful years of German and European history and traces their evolutionary unity from the 19th centruey to Hitler's rise to power. Sebastian Haffner is the best-selling author of "The Meaning of Hitler".
