A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs

A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

Christopher B. Krebs

303 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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