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" ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021*** A 2021 Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent * Daily Mail 'A masterpiece' SPECTATOR 'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES 'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' TELEGRAPH Germany, 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? In 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. Aftermath is 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 - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time. "
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Biographisches: " Harald Jähner is a cultural journalist and former editor of the Berliner Zeitung . He was also an honorary professor of cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts. Aftermath was first published in Germany as Wolfszeit , where it was a Spiegel bestseller and won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for non-fiction. " Rezension(2): "Max Hastings, Sunday Times: Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write " Rezension(3): "The Spectator: A masterpiece " Rezension(4): "The Telegraph: Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here " Rezension(5): "Katja Hoyer, The Times: Jähner is masterly in telling the tragic, despicable, comedic and uplifting stories of those who were there as he takes his readers on a fascinating tour through rubble-strewn postwar Germany " Rezension(6): "Philippe Sands, bestselling author of East West Street and The Ratline: Magisterial, fascinating, humane - a brilliant book of the greatest importance and achievement " Rezension(7): "John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why the Germans Do it Better: I thought I knew the essential story of Germany's immediate post-war years. This book brilliantly adds to, indeed changes, my understanding. One of the best historians and authors of contemporary Germany, Jähner paints an absorbing, human and surprising picture " Rezension(8): "The Times (21 best history books 2021): This panoramic journey through Germany in the ruins of the Third Reich is unforgettably thought-provoking [and] intensely moving " Rezension(9): "Jack Fairweather, bestselling author of The Volunteer: An extraordinary book of breathtaking scholarship. Jähner shines a light on a dark and almost forgotten period of German history to find it pulsating with life " Rezension(10): "Neil MacGregor, author of Germany: Memories of a Nation: What does total defeat mean? Germany 1945-55. Ten years of poverty, ruins, fear, violence, black markets, manic hard work, inventive sex - and always, always, silence about the murdered millions of the Third Reich. A fascinating read. " Rezension(11): "James Hawes, bestselling author of The Shortest History of Germany: Absolutely extraordinary. Every page stops you dead with insight and revelation. " Rezension(12): "Dominic Sandbrook: Aftermath is that rare thing, a history book that turns what you knew completely on its head. It is testament to Harald Jähner's achievement that Aftermath is a book that I will never forget " Rezension(13): "Julia Boyd, bestselling author of Travellers in the Third Reich: For those who want to understand the Germans, Aftermath is essential reading. An engrossing study on all counts, Jähner's analysis of people's response to the Nazis' monstrous crimes and how perpetrators and victims merged into a new nation is especially compelling. Anyone with even the slightest interest in history and the human condition should read this book. " Rezension(14): "Simon Jenkins, bestselling author of A Short History of England: A fascinating account of a forgotten moment in Europe's history, of utter desperation leading to tentative hope. " Rezension(15): "Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness: A fiercely compelling book that brings vivid illumination to an era of twilight and brutal ruins. Harald Jähner beautifully explores the hinterland of human nature in all its shades " Rezension(16): "Jennifer Szalai, New York Times: [Jähner] does double duty in this fascinating book, elegantly marshaling a plethora of facts while also using his critical skills to wry effect. Even though Aftermath covers historical ground, its narrative is intimate, filled with first-person accounts " Rezension(17): "Geoff Dyer, New Statesman (Books of the Year 2021): Aftermath is a transfixing account and subtle analysis. A scrupulous investigation of the past, it reads, constantly, like a prelude to what is still unfolding. " Rezension(18): "Financial Times (Best Books of 2021): Aftermath captures brilliantly the atmosphere of everyday life in the destroyed cities of divided postwar Germany " Rezension(19): "Wall Street Journal: Subtle, perceptive and beautifully written " Rezension(20): "Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich: Many consider the years before 1945 to be the most crucial in understanding Germany and the Germans. Wait until you have read this book. " Rezension(21): "Bernhard Schlink, bestselling author of The Reader: Harald Jähner's deeply researched, panoramic account of how Germany rebuilt and discovered itself from 1945-1955 is an eye-opening, thrilling read " Rezension(22): "Daily Telegraph (Best Summer Reading): A magnificent overview of the astonishing decade in Germany that followed the defeat of Nazism " Rezension(23): "BBC History Magazine: Eye-opening and often moving... a sobering look at how societies rebuild " Rezension(24): "Peter Fritzsche, New York Times:Highly readable... Counter-intuitive but thoughtful" Rezension(25): "Irish Times: [A] thoughtful narrative... filling the yawning gap on bookshop shelves between a growing number of modern German history texts and the oversupply of Nazi studies that end in Hitler's bunker " Rezension(26): "Giles MacDonogh, Financial Times: Aftermath takes in the immediate postwar years where Germany was administered by the..."
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