Looks at Hitler's first year in power through the stories of the American ambassador, Hitler's chief of the foreign press, a Jewish society reporter, and the first head of the Gestapo
It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise...
“The leading and most persuasive explanation of the worst economic disaster in American history, the onset of the Great Depression.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of...