Heinrich August Winkler is one of Germany's leading historians and emeritus professor of history at Humboldt University in Berlin. Stewart Spencer is an acclaimed translator whose work includes biographies of Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner and W.A. Mozart, all published by Yale University Press.
"Winkler’s monumental and remarkably accessible account of the
years from 1914 to 1945 combines narrative with an astute analysis
of military, political and social history… Winkler’s judgement is
always sound, his narrative analysis always gripping and
insightful."—Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times
"A splendid translation of his magisterial study of the ‘West.'"—
Richard Overy, Literary Review
"An extraordinary tour de force. . . . An equally powerful and
knowledgeable panorama of the western world in the era of its
greatest disaster."—Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler
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