This third edition of a much-admired introduction to German history captures recent developments in Germany, Europe and the wider world.

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London. Over her career, she has authored or edited twenty-five books, including Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018), the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012), and Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships (2011; two volume paperback edition, 2017). Mary Fulbrook was Founding Joint Editor of German History and has served as Chair of the Modern History Section of the British Academy as well as Chair of the German History Society.

1. Introduction: the German lands and people; 2. Mediaeval Germany; 3. The age of confessionalism, 1500-1648; 4. The age of absolutism, 1648-1815; 5. The age of industrialisation, 1815-1918; 6. Democracy and dictatorship, 1918-45; 7. The two Germanies, 1945-90; 8. The Federal Republic of Germany since 1990; 9. Patterns and problems of German history.