A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People - Steven Ozment

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nThe word German was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of German history have faded beneath the long shadow of the countrys darkest hour in World War II. Now, award-winning historian Steven Ozment, whom The New Yorker has hailed as a splendidly readable scholar, gives us the fullest portrait possible in this sweeping, original, and provocative history of the German people, from antiquity to the present, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization -- one that has been alternately Western Europes most successful and most perilous.--The New Criterion nThe word German was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of German history have faded beneath the long shadow of the countrys darkest hour in World War II. Now, award-winning historian Steven Ozment, whom The New Yorker has hailed as a splendidly readable scholar, gives us the fullest portrait possible in this sweeping, original, and provocative history of the German people, from antiquity to the present, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization -- one that has been alternately Western Europes most successful and most perilous. nThe word German was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of German history have faded beneath the long shadow of the countrys darkest hour in World War II. Now, award-winning historian Steven Ozment, whom The New Yorker has hailed as a splendidly readable scholar, gives us the fullest portrait possible in this sweeping, original, and provocative history of the German people, from antiquity to the present, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization -- one that has been alternately Western Europes most successful and most perilous. nThe word German was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of German history have faded beneath the long shadow of the countrys darkest hour in World War II. Now, award-winning historian Steven Ozment, whom The New Yorker has hailed as a splendidly readable scholar, gives us the fullest portrait possi

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