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Gravediggers, The: The last winter of the Weimar Republic

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Gravediggers, The: The last winter of the Weimar Republic

SKU: 9781788160728 Category: Product ID: 12085

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Title: Gravediggers, The: The last winter of the Weimar Republic
Author: HAUKE FRIEDERICHS/BARTH RUDIGER
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 03/12/2019
Imprint: PROFILE BOOKS (UK)
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

November 1932. The Weimar Republic is teetering. The economy is in ruins, the political climate is becoming increasingly brutal and street battles rage between Communists and National Socialists. In the Reichstag and the Chancellery, fixers, adventurers, extremists and demagogues are engaged in a ruthless power struggle, rife with feints, lies, fighting and deception.

Over these few weeks, five men decide the fate of Germany. Along with the National Socialists Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of intrigue around the elderly President Paul von Hindenburg in a dramatic House of Cards-like scramble for power. The historians Rudiger Barth and Hauke Friedrichs have drawn on diaries, letters, little-known files and personal notes by a number of actors and observers to produce a thrilling day-by-day account of the final ten weeks of the Weimar Republic. The result is a colourful, multi-layered portrait of a period that was by no means predestined to plunge into the abyss…but now seems uncannily familiar.

ISBN: 9781788160728
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 400

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Dimensions 234 × 153 mm