Dissonant Lives

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London. She is the author of numerous books and articles on German history, including A Small Town Near Auschwitz and Anatomy of a Dictatorship, both also published by Oxford University Press.

• 1: Introduction: Violence and Generations 2: Violence Abroad: Aspects of Imperialism 3: Uncomfortable Compatriots: Societal Violence and the Crises of Weimar 4: Divided Generations: State Violence and the Formation of 'Two Worlds' in Nazi Germany 5: The Escalation of Violence: War and Genocide Epilogue to volume I Bibliography Index

Fulbrook's thoughtful, erudite research, which examines how Germans made sense of their experiences living in the two German dictatorships of the 20th century, demonstrates how much we can learn from history if we examine the past through the lens of generation, as well as class, race and gender.