By Howard M. Sachar
In his famously arresting prose, Sachar lines the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg, Kurt Eisner, Matthias Erzberger, and Walther Rathenau in Germany—a deadly chain response that contributed to the Weimar Republic's eventual cave in and Hitler's upward push to strength. Sachar's exploration of political fragility in Italy, Austria, the successor states of jap Europe, and France completes a mordant but exciting publicity of the previous World's deadly vulnerability. the ultimate bankruptcy, which chronicles the deaths of Stefan and Lotte Zweig, serves as a thought-provoking metaphor for the assassination of the previous international itself.
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