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Lothar Kettenacker.Germany Since 1945. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 332 pp.

Germany since 1945 (OPUS) by Kettenacker, Lothar -

$14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-289242-3.

Reviewed by Paul Doerr (Department of History, Acadia University)
Published on H-W-Civ (May, 1998)

Those of us who have taught courses in European history since the Second World War have had cause to bemoan the lack of affordable, accessible texts, so naturally Lothar Kettenacker's new history of Germany since 1945 raises expectations and hopes.

At first glance this seems a comprehensive, affordable book, priced at about fifteen dollars, complete with excellent maps, lots of tables and statistics, a detailed chronology and an attractive cover. While Germany Since 1945 contains a considerable amount of useful information, my own feeling is that for the most part Kettenacker has missed an opportunity to write a truly significant book.

Part of the problem concerns the author's approach: this book is high politics, and high politics wi Lothar Kettenacker: books, biography, latest update TUF