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This, the riveting story of the Germania, tells of its incarnations and exploitations through the ages. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 AD, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible" and that Heinrich Himmler would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired - and polarised - readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Most Dangerous Book
• Author: Christopher B Krebs
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780393342925
• ISBN: 0393342921
• ID: 01202157
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 242 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 191 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 2012

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