{"product_id":"aftermath-life-in-the-fallout-of-the-third-reich-pb-w2","title":"Harald Jahner: Aftermath: W2 [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2021 Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eTelegraph \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write'\u003c\/b\u003e MAX HASTINGS,\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGermany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAftermath \u003c\/i\u003eis a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - \u003ci\u003eAftermath \u003c\/i\u003eevokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jahner, Harald \u0026 Whiteside, Shaun","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42145430765753,"sku":"9780753557884","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":50582851584339,"sku":"XG80753557884","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46944424034643,"sku":"XV80753557884","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":50582851551571,"sku":"XE80753557884","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/jahner-harald-whiteside-shaun-harald-jahner-aftermath-w2-2022-paperback-58863871852883.jpg?v=1742050088","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/aftermath-life-in-the-fallout-of-the-third-reich-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}