'This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany's cities following World War II ... Diefendorf presents a wealth of material on all aspects of reconstruction ... this is a detailed and scholarly study of social policy in Weimar Germany ... Elizabeth Harvey's lucid and scholarly analysis provides new insights into the troubled development of the Weimar welfare state, and adds important evidence to the debate over continuities in social policy between Weimar Germany and the Third Reich.' History: European

'This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany's cities following World War II ... Diefendorf presents a wealth of material on all aspects of reconstruction ... this is a detailed and scholarly study of social policy in Weimar Germany ... Elizabeth Harvey's lucid and scholarly analysis provides new insights into the troubled development of the Weimar welfare state, and adds important evidence to the debate over continuities in social policy between Weimar Germany and the Third Reich.' History: European

'This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany's cities following World War II ... Diefendorf presents a wealth of material on all aspects of reconstruction ... this is a detailed and scholarly study of social policy in Weimar Germany ... Elizabeth Harvey's lucid and scholarly analysis provides new insights into the troubled development of the Weimar welfare state, and adds important evidence to the debate over continuities in social policy between Weimar Germany and the Third Reich.' History: European