📗 Libro en inglés VERTIGO

An Observer Book of the Year One of the most gripping accounts of the Nazis rise to power It contains many lessons for the world now John Kampfner bestselling author of Why The Germans Do It Better Outstanding This is history at its very best Julia Boyd bestselling author of Travellers in the Third ReichGermany 1918 a country in flux The First World War is over the nation defeated Revolution is afoot the monarchy has fallen and the victory of democracy beckons Everything must change with the times Out of the ashes of the First World War Germany launches an unprecedented political project its first democratic government The Weimar Republic is established The years that follow see political extremism economic upheaval revolutionary violence and the transformation of Germany Tradition is shaken to its core as a triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges Women conquer the racetracks and tennis courts go out alone in the evenings cut their hair short and cast the idea of marriage aside Unisex style comes into fashion androgynous and experimental People revel in the discovery of leisure filling up boxing halls dance palaces and the hotspots of the New Age embracing the department stores promise of happiness and accepting