The story of an epochal event in German history, this is also the story of the most important revolution that you might never have heard of.

• Preface


• Introduction: "Like a Beautiful Dream"


• 1: 1917 and the Revolution of Expectations


• 2: Hoping for Victory


• 3: Endgame


• 4: The Sailors' Mutiny


• 5: The Sailors' Mutiny


• 6: Showdown in Berlin


• 7: Making Peace in the West


• 8: Challenges for the Young Republic


• 9: Fighting Radicalization


• 10: The Triumph of Liberalism


• 11: Democracy Besieged


• 12: Undermining Weimar: Versailles


• The Defiant Republic: Germany 1919-23


• Index

Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at UCD and Director of the Centre for War Studies. He is the author of The Bismarck Myth (Oxford UP, 2005) and a biography of Reinhard Heydrich (Yale UP, 2011). His third monograph, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End was published by Penguin (UK) and FSG (US) in the autumn of 2016. He has authored several articles in leading international journals such as Past & Present, The Journal of Modern History, Geschichte & Gesellschaft, and Vingtième Siècle. His work has been translated into some thirty languages.