{"product_id":"aftermath","title":"Aftermath","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking, and vitally human stories of ruin, repression, and revival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e Top 10 Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Cundill History Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Times \u003cem\u003e Sunday Times \u003c\/em\u003e Telegraph \u003cem\u003e New Statesman \u003c\/em\u003e Financial Times \u003cem\u003e Irish Independent \u003c\/em\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eA masterpiece\u003c\/q\u003e - \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eExemplary and important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write\u003c\/q\u003e - Max Hastings, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eMagnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here\u003c\/q\u003e - \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAftermath\u003c\/em\u003e 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 - \u003cem\u003eAftermath\u003c\/em\u003e evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised, and freed - all at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45695115231468,"sku":"9780753557884","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780753557884.jpg?v=1725621329","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/aftermath","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}