The Weimar Years, Frank McDonough

The Weimar Years, Frank McDonoughNew Paperback The prequel to Frank McDonoughs bestselling Hitler Years series, covering the dramatic era of German history that culminated in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. Established in the wake of German defeat in the First World War, the Weimar Republic held out the hope that democracy, stability and prosperity would take root in Germany. From the start, however, it was beset by political and economic upheaval and spasms of violence

But along the way

from street and pub names to trading routes and coaching inns

There were no definite answers for almost 100 years

candid and darkly humorous

Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church

from those of pressing national interests to the mundane (such as the problem of heartbroken soldiers in his guard

many of which were exported

chained in a cell - a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century 'mindhunters' got to work

and one by one the plotters were found out

human well-being appears to be both possible and impossible

a building of Miesian purity by Peter Womersley

while Christians and pagans