History of Germany, 1800 to the Present

William Carr was Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, UK. A former Chairman of the German History Society, Professor Carr authored numerous books on German history, including Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics (1986) and The Origins of the Wars of German Unification (1991). The 4th edition of his classic textbook, A History of Germany 1815-1990, was published in 1991.David Wetzel is Lecturer at the University of California Berkeley, USA. He is the author of A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War (2001) and A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870-1871 (2012). He is also the editor of From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany (1996).

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsPrefaceNote on GeographyBiographical Sketches of Major Characters1. In the Shadow of France, 1800-1815 2. Restoration, 1814-1847 3. The Revolution of 1848-18494. From Revolution to Unification5. The Development of the Bismarckian Empire6. Foreign Policy, 1871-18907. The Empire of Wilhelm II8. Foreign Policy, 1890-19149. War 1914-191810. Revolution, 1918-192011. The Weimar Republic: the Critical Years 1919-192412. The Rise and Fall of the Weimar Republic 1924-193313. National Socialist Experiment, 1933-194514. Foreign Policy and War 1933-194515. A Nation Divided16. Relations Between the Two Sides17. 198918. 1990 to PresentBibliographyIndex

In addition to preserving all of the strengths of William Carr’s classic text on modern Germany, David Wetzel has done a brilliant job revising some interpretations on the basis of new scholarship and bringing the story up to the present. This is a clearly written, well informed account of Germany’s fascinating and often tragic national history.