Aftermath

Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside

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English

W H ALLEN
02 August 2022

History; European history; Second World War

The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival.

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A Book of the Year The Times
* Sunday Times
* Telegraph
* New Statesman
* Financial Times
* Irish Independent
* Daily Mail

'A masterpiece' SPECTATOR

'Exemplary

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important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES

'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' TELEGRAPH

Germany, 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?

In 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.

Aftermath is 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 - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time.

By: Harald Jähner
Translated by: Shaun Whiteside
Imprint: W H ALLEN
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780753557884
ISBN 10: 0753557886
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 02 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harald J hner is a cultural journalist and former editor of the Berliner Zeitung. He was also an honorary professor of cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts. Aftermath was first published in Germany as Wolfszeit, where it was a Spiegel bestseller and won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for non-fiction.

Reviews for Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write * Max Hastings, Sunday Times * A masterpiece * The Spectator * Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here -- Rupert Christiansen * The Telegraph * Jähner is masterly in telling the tragic, despicable, comedic and uplifting stories of those who were there as he takes his readers on a fascinating tour through rubble-strewn postwar Germany * Katja Hoyer, The Times * Thought-provoking... Jähner's unflinching account is a reminder that historical truths are rarely simple and always nuanced * Daily Mail * Magisterial, fascinating, humane - a brilliant book of the greatest importance and achievement * Philippe Sands, bestselling author of East West Street and The Ratline * I thought I knew the essential story of Germany's immediate post-war years. This book brilliantly adds to, indeed changes, my understanding. One of the best historians and authors of contemporary Germany, Jähner paints an absorbing, human and surprising picture * John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why the Germans Do it Better * This panoramic journey through Germany in the ruins of the Third Reich is unforgettably thought-provoking [and] intensely moving * The Times (21 best history books 2021) * A reminder that the German experience will always stand apart * Economist * An extraordinary book of breathtaking scholarship. Jähner shines a light on a dark and almost forgotten period of German history to find it pulsating with life * Jack Fairweather, bestselling author of The Volunteer *