For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves?
Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. He was Director of the National Gallery in London from 1987 to 2002. His celebrated books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, now translated into more than a dozen languages and one of the top-selling titles ever published by Penguin Press, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories of a Nation.
From sausages and porcelain to the glory days of Bauhaus, MacGregor
has produced a dazzling history that goes far beyond the
stereotypes of Nazis, forests and leather shorts. The illustrations
alone - the glittering interior of Aachen Cathedral, the engravings
of Albrecht Dürer - make you want to jump on the first flight to
Berlin
*Sunday Times*
Unfailingly interesting and stimulating ... the book succeeds
triumphantly
*TLS*
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