{"product_id":"9781399618434","title":"Weimar Germany : Death of a Democracy by Sebestyen, Victor","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Sebestyen, Victor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eGermany\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 April 2026 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 480 pages\u003cbr\u003e166 x 244 x 42 | 730g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS'As gripping as a novel . . . what canny insight this book offers into the insecurity of our own times' ANNE SEBBA'Could not be more timely' TIM BOUVERIE'All our politicians should read it' CLARE MULLEYIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place  'of dangerous glamour and worldliness,  of tawdry cynicism, where art and riot  flourished side by side.'The Weimar Republic was Germany's postwar experiment with democracy, and a time of unprecedented cultural, intellectual and artistic freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin was at the cutting edge of quantum physics and psychoanalysis; its nightlife showcased  grand opera and dissolute cabaret.  Bauhaus architecture and modernist painting flourished, and  it rivalled  Hollywood as a capital of film.  But beneath the glamour was a deeply polarised society of  extremes  plagued by economic disasters,  populist  leaders fuelling culture wars,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand an uneasy political settlement that would  soon spawn the horrors of Nazism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering fifteen years from the  end of  the First World War to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, Weimar Germany tells the definitive story of Germany's interwar republic and descent into fascism. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters including Vladimir Nabokov, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich,  Adolf Hitler,  Billy Wilder,  Thomas Mann, Joseph Goebbels, Christopher Isherwood and Rosa Luxemburg, Weimar Germany is a gripping and evocative account of how the fledgling German democracy died.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58225560256893,"sku":"9781399618434","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9781399618434.jpg?v=1780068615","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/es\/products\/9781399618434","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}