books.google.de - Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories...http://books.google.de/books/about/Germany_The_Long_Road_West.html?hl=de&id=VTmnnI08cD0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGermany: The Long Road West