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A portrait of Germany in five volumes

Thursday, 28th June 2007

 

Harvard professor Steven Ozment - author of  A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People - makes his choice of the best  books on  the country's history and character:

1. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, Herwig Wolfram

2. The Origins of Modern Germany, Geoffrey Barraclough.

3. Luther by Heiko A. Oberman.

4. From Hegel to Nietzsche by Karl Löwith.

5. Bismarck by Lothar Gall.

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