
Vertigo
- Author Harald Jähner
- Narrator Sam Peter Jackson
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date 20 June 2024
- Run Time 14 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre European history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, History, Political structures: democracy, Politics and government, Social and cultural history, Society and Social Sciences.
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Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new woman', the 'new man', 'new living' and 'new thinking'.
What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. 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 the streets as a place of fierce battles. So much of this short burst of life between the wars seems amazingly modern today, including, amidst a frenzy of change, the backlash from those who did not see themselves reflected in this new culture. Little by little, deep divisions in society began to emerge. Divisions that would have devastating consequences, altering the course of the twentieth century and the lives of millions around the world.
Praise for Aftermath by Harald Jähner:
'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times
'A masterpiece' - Spectator
'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' - Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph
©2024 Harald Jähner (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
The Weimar Republic is a byword for hedonism and excess. A new history captures the mood with gusto … For obvious reasons most histories of the Weimar years are dominated by politics, with Hitler and his cronies lurking ominously on the margins. But Jähner’s account is more unconventional, more surprising and, frankly, more enjoyable … I enjoyed it enormously.
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