For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression.
Smith\'s dramatic narrative begins with the earliest glimmers of a nat.
Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history--the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II--challenges traditional perceptions of Germany\'s conflicted past, revealing a Nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians have imagined.
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression