{"title":"Books by Robert Gerwarth","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141976372","title":"The Vanquished","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of  post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us  rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date -  the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, and also a  vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their  principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman  Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no  meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed  country after country. In this highly original, gripping book Robert  Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World  War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lucid, incisive and packed with fascinating details' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Important  and timely ... obliges us to reconsider a period and a battlefront that  has too often been neglected'  Margaret MacMillan, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This  narrative of continent-wide chaos performs a valuable service by  chronicling the postwar turmoil of Europe ... helps us understand why  few wars reach tidy conclusions' Max Hastings, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Reminds  us, in vivid and often shocking detail, that only some countries saw  killing end on the 11th day of the 11th month ... leaves a sense of  foreboding for our own time' Robert Tombs, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225156759925,"sku":"9780141976372","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141976372_4104b303-5be1-43cf-96fb-de893b223be7.jpg?v=1786011708"},{"product_id":"9780199546473","title":"November 1918","description":"The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come.Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgement. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way.Focusing on the dramatic events between the last months of the First World War in 1918 and Hitler's Munich Putsch of 1923, Gerwarth illuminates the fundamental and deep-seated ways in which the November Revolution changed Germany. In doing so, he reminds us that, while it is easy with the benefit of hindsight to write off the 1918 Revolution as a 'failure', this failure was not somehow pre-ordained. In 1918, the fate of the German Revolution remained very much an open book.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682567496053,"sku":"9780198911869","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56227228549493,"sku":"9780199546473","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780199546473_70176920-88da-4215-9232-af04996effb5.jpg?v=1792511508"},{"product_id":"9780300187724","title":"Hitler′s Hangman – The Life of Heydrich","description":"A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germany’s terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydrich—a key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been told“Gerwarth dispassionately examines Heydrich’s rise and assassination, which resulted in a horrific series of Nazi reprisals in Czechoslovakia. The best account of Heydrich.”—Jacob Heilbrunn, The Daily Beast “Meticulously takes us inside the Third Reich, . . . revealing as few texts do how the bureaucracy of evil worked.”—Kirkus Reviews Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the \"Final Solution,\" Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany. He shouldered a major share of responsibility for some of the worst Nazi atrocities, and up to his assassination in Prague in 1942, he was widely seen as one of the most dangerous men in Nazi Germany. Yet Heydrich has received remarkably modest attention in the extensive literature of the Third Reich.   Robert Gerwarth weaves together little-known stories of Heydrich's private life with his deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main Office. Fully exploring Heydrich's progression from a privileged middle-class youth to a rapacious mass murderer, Gerwarth sheds new light on the complexity of Heydrich's adult character, his motivations, the incremental steps that led to unimaginable atrocities, and the consequences of his murderous efforts toward re-creating the entire ethnic makeup of Europe.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311677780341,"sku":"9780300187724","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300187724_97e55efa-729e-48b8-a340-848a8ed01c86.jpg?v=1786012723"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-robert-gerwarth.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}