{"product_id":"aftermath-von-harald-jahner-1","title":"Aftermath","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP 10 BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION***\u003cbr\u003e***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eTelegraph \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write'\u003c\/b\u003e MAX HASTINGS,\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGermany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAftermath \u003c\/i\u003eis a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - \u003ci\u003eAftermath \u003c\/i\u003eevokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780753557884\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLife in the Fallout of the Third Reich\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780753557884","offer_id":39415502536797,"sku":"9780753557884","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/b34a51e9-1b55-42d3-b91e-7af50350d427.jpg?v=1780718975","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/aftermath-von-harald-jahner-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}