About this title: From one of our most distinguished historians comes a sweeping, original, and provocative history of Germany, from antiquity to the present, shedding a fresh, empathetic light on the nation and its people. A Mighty Fortress is a work of penetrating, virtuoso scholarship that holds a mirror to an entire civilization - - one that has been alternately Western Europe's most successful and most perilous. It boldly examines Germany's tumultuous twentieth century in light of its earliest achievements as a prosperous, civil, and moral society, tracing a line of continuity that began in ancient times ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060934835ISBN:0060934832
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2005-02-01
ISBN-13:9780060934835ISBN:0060934832
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. Pre-release book with plain cover and stickers. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Description: Illustrated. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book. White lettering on the red and color illustrated dust jacket spine with a color illustrated cover. A sweeping, original, and provocative history of the German people, from antiquity to the present. 400 pages. Stated 1st Edition. Light wear. Tight binding. Near Fine/Near Fine condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780066209258ISBN:0066209250
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A photo of this book is available. Like-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $26.95. 400 pages. Illustrated. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Synopsis Can a 2, 000-year-old civilization be defined by its last 150 years, asks Ozment (ancient and modern history, Harvard U. ) as he attempts to bypass the Nazi/Hitler monopoly on German history. He surveys ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780066209258ISBN:0066209250
Description: Used Good. No Jacket. The text appears clean, the cover has some wear. Has a stamp mark on the outer page edges. Has NO Dust Jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780066209258ISBN:0066209250
Description: Beaver, Adam G. (Maps by) Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 400 pp., [8] pp. of plates, illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 24 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition. " Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "The word 'German' was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of German history have faded beneath the long shadow of the country's ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780066209258ISBN:0066209250
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0066209250. New; Brand new stated first edition partial, first printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780066209258ISBN:0066209250
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0066209250. New; Brand new stated first edition partial, first printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Granta Books
Date Published: 2005-03-07
ISBN-13:9781862077591ISBN:1862077592
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2004-03
ISBN-13:9780066209258ISBN:0066209250
Description: Very Good. *WITHDRAWN LIBRARY COPY* with customary stamps and stickers; No markings in text; Being sold on consignment for the library. read more
"A recent history of Germany, written by a German. It is very good, very through, and very interesting. Even though I have taken German history in college, I have never read a book that so skillfully combined theology, macroeconomics, art, philosophy, psychology,music and history to describe a culture. History books aren't usually that interesting. The book also throughly describes German history, all several thousand years of it, not just the short Nazi time."
"I learned a few names and a general timeline, but this book was god-awful boring. I was a history minor, and have experience with the difference between well written academic history and dry, plodding, bludgeoning history. This is the kind of book that makes kids tune out to history in school and people gag when I mentioned that it was my minor. Sorry, Professor Ozment, you need a ghostwriter."
"First I read Mary Fulbrook's Concise History of Germany, then this. It's more interpretive and highly readable. I'm not qualified to judge the interpretation, but . . . I know a lot more about Germany and Germans now, so I'm happy."
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