Germania

A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

Simon Winder

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Picador
25 February 2020

History; European history

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, Winder describes Germany's past afresh - and in doing so sees a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to eating some very strange food. This accessible, enthusiastic and startlingly vivid account is a brilliant introduction to the hidden wonders of Germany.

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times

By: Simon Winder
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 316g
ISBN: 9781529026153
ISBN 10: 1529026156
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 25 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Winder is the author of the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain and the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Germania. He works in publishing and lives in Wandsworth Town.

Reviews for Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

An engrossing, informative and hilarious read * The Sunday Times * Magnificently crazy -- Will Self * Esquire * The high plateau of my year was my catching up with Simon Winder. Danubia and Germania are an idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect. -- Sir Tom Stoppard * TLS * Travelogue and historical narrative are merged in a gloriously free-wheeling narrative of the entire sweep of German history. * The Telegraph *