The History of Germany Since 1789The finest one volume history of Germany ever published. At times, writes Golo Mann, 'the Germans seem a philosophical people, at others the most practical and most materialistic; at times the most peaceful, at others the most domineering and brutal. Time after time they have surprised the world by things least expected of them.' It is this quality of paradox, even of mystery, in the German nation that the distinguished historian renders with such