Author: Simon Winder
Title: Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
Description: Picador 2011 Paperback, 684pp. Simon Winder is obsessed with Germany; its cuisine, its architecture, its fairytale landscape. He is equally passionate about the regionrs's history, its folklore, its monarchs, and its changing borders. Winder describes Germanyrs's past afresh, taking in the story from the shaggy world of the ancient forests right through to the Nazisrs' catastrophic rise in the 1930rs's, in an accessible and startlingly vivid account of a tortured but also brilliant country.Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. With a delightfully dry, self-deprecating wit, he explains the origins of his crazed love affair with a country which has, at different times, revealed the best and the worst aspects of Europers's culture.This is a rollicking account, replete with enlightening digressions, anecdotes, and memories. Often eccentric, always entertaining, Winder is an enthusiastic guide to the hidden wonders of Germany. Gift inscription to previous owners on first page. (ISBN: 9780330451406). Good.

Keywords: Travel, History, German9780330451406 9780330451406


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