Volume 25, Number 21 & 22 · January 25, 1979
The German Leviathan
By Felix Gilbert
Germany 1866-1945
by Gordon A. Craig
Oxford University Press, 825 pp., $19.95
The German Problem Reconsidered: Germany and the World Order, 1870 to the Present
by David Calleo
Cambridge University Press, 239 pp., $11.95
I am surely not the only person who from time to time is unpleasantly reminded of the gap between his proclaimed convictions and his actual behavior. I frequently say that I am fascinated only by those historical writings which, by applying new methods or focusing on previously neglected aspects of the life of the past, add a new dimension to our understanding of history. Actually, however, I have difficulty putting down a work of historical scholarship that is a well-written narrative along traditional lines. Gordon Craig's book on Germany made me again aware of this weakness. I was entranced; despite its length, it seemed too short.
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