This Horizon Concise History of Germany is one of a series of ten innovative, well-illustrated history books. Each is a quick, easily grasped, and highly readable introduction to the entire past of a great nation (one volume for each covers the Low Countries and Scandinavia).
It is a truism to say that no foreign land and people can be understood and appreciated without a sense of their history. But most of us have neither time nor patience to read the available—and formidably detailed—histories of the many nations that interest us.
The unique aim of each of these Concise Histories is to provide a brief, adult, absorbing, and memorable overview of all the mainstream history of a nation. The books are fine "briefings" and travelling companions for the visitor to other shores, and for the the hosts and friends of visitors to ours.
Their illustrations have been chosen to display the charterer of each county's historic art, and to convey an idea of the look of the land and its people, across the years. Each volume is also thoroughly indexed, to make it a handy reference work.
And most important, each volume is a work of scholarship and literary merit. The authors are front-rank historians and writers, Each is thoroughly familiar with the history and current scene of his subject country.
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