![]() ![]() 14 black-and-white illustrationsįor my own part, I agree with those who think the tribes of Germania are free from all taint of inter-marriages with foreign nations, and that they appear as a distinct, unmixed ethnicity, like none but themselves Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. But the Germania inspired-and polarized-readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages. In every way, A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement."-Washington Post ![]() "A model of popular intellectual history. Winner of Phi Beta Kappa's 2012 Christian Gauss Book Award. ![]() Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. ![]()
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