An American journalist who knew Germany well explains how the empire fell. Bouton begins with the structure of the Reich and the Prussian idea of the state, the rise of Socialism and the effects of the hunger blockade, then follows the November revolution, the council of people’s commissioners, the Spartacist risings and the making of the Weimar republic up to August 1919.
A contemporary, well-informed explanation of Germany’s collapse and its uneasy new democracy. Download the free EPUB.