A review by dudamiranda
The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes

3.0

This book is useful to understand the formation of Germany from the colonization by the Romans until the present day, as well as the recent events. History was a hard subject for me at school and I couldn’t absorb much of it, specially topics related to politics. For this purpose, the book was informative and easy to understand.
The author does assume previous knowledge and doesn’t go into details about certain topics, but I still could follow the main ideas and learn a lot from this book.
It doesn’t go very deep into present day dynamics, focusing more on the division between west and east.