# Aftermath

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- Book: [Aftermath](https://www.bookquiver.com/harald-jahner/aftermath) ([Aftermath.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harald-jahner/aftermath.md))
- Authors: [Harald Jähner](https://www.bookquiver.com/harald-jahner)
- Publisher: virgin_audio
- Translated by: Shaun Whiteside
- Medium: audio
- Length: 11 h 43 min
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- ISBN: 978-18-4657-460-3
- Published: 2021-06-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 11 h 43 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021*** Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. Aftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time. 'Magisterial, fascinating, humane - a brilliant book of the greatest importance and achievement' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Absolutely extraordinary. Every page stops you dead with insight and revelation' JAMES HAWES ' For those who want to understand the Germans, Aftermath is essential reading. Anyone with even the slightest interest in history and the human condition should read this book ' JULIA BOYD © Harald Jähner 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021