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Firm and rightly grounded in its own time and place, The Downfall of Money nonetheless resonates in our own. -- The Washington Times One of the brightest historians writing today. -- Newsweek Taylor ( Dresden ) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic. -- Publisher's Weekly Excellent . . . By skillfully weaving together economic history with political narrative and drawing on sources from everyday life as well as the inner cabinet of diplomacy, Mr. Taylor tells the history of the Weimar inflation as the life-and-death struggle of the first German democracy . . . This is a dramatic story, well told. --Adam Tooze, Wall Street Journal A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative . . . Taylor's history provides plenty of revelant lessons for today--and not only for Europe. -- Kirkus Reviews Exorcising Hitler has . . . colorful anecdotes and harrowing recollections, an omnivorous intelligence and wide reading in the scholarly literature. -- New York Times on Exorcising Hitler Important . . . very commendable . . . fills an important gap in German history in English. -- Wall Street Journal on Exorcising Hitler

Firm and rightly grounded in its own time and place, The Downfall of Money nonetheless resonates in our own. The Washington Times One of the brightest historians writing today. Newsweek Taylor ( Dresden ) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic. Publisher's Weekly Excellent . . . By skillfully weaving together economic history with political narrative and drawing on sources from everyday life as well as the inner cabinet of diplomacy, Mr. Taylor tells the history of the Weimar inflation as the life-and-death struggle of the first German democracy . . . This is a dramatic story, well told. Adam Tooze, Wall Street Journal A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative . . . Taylor's history provides plenty of revelant lessons for today--and not only for Europe. Kirkus Reviews Exorcising Hitler has . . . colorful anecdotes and harrowing recollections, an omnivorous intelligence and wide reading in the scholarly literature. New York Times on Exorcising Hitler Important . . . very commendable . . . fills an important gap in German history in English. Wall Street Journal on Exorcising Hitler

Firm and rightly grounded in its own time and place, The Downfall of Money nonetheless resonates in our own. The Washington Times One of the brightest historians writing today. Newsweek Taylor ( Dresden ) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic. Publisher's Weekly Excellent . . . By skillfully weaving together economic history with political narrative and drawing on sources from everyday life as well as the inner cabinet of diplomacy, Mr. Taylor tells the history of the Weimar inflation as the life-and-death struggle of the first German democracy . . . This is a dramatic story, well told. Adam Tooze, Wall Street Journal A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative . . . Taylor's history provides plenty of revelant lessons for today--and not only for Europe. Kirkus Reviews Exorcising Hitler has . . . colorful anecdotes and harrowing recollections, an omnivorous intelligence and wide reading in the scholarly literature. New York Times on Exorcising Hitler Important . . . very commendable . . . fills an important gap in German history in English. Wall Street Journal on Exorcising Hitler Firm and rightly grounded in its own time and place, The Downfall of Money nonetheless resonates in our own. -- The Washington Times One of the brightest historians writing today. -- Newsweek Taylor ( Dresden ) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic. -- Publisher's Weekly Excellent . . . By skillfully weaving together economic history with political narrative and drawing on sources from everyday life as well as the inner cabinet of diplomacy, Mr. Taylor tells the history of the Weimar inflation as the life-and-death struggle of the first German democracy . . . This is a dramatic story, well told. --Adam Tooze, Wall Street Journal A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative . . . Taylor's history provides plenty of revelant lessons for today--and not only for Europe. -- Kirkus Reviews Exorcising Hitler has . . . colorful anecdotes and harrowing recollections, an omnivorous intelligence and wide reading in the scholarly literature. -- New York Times on Exorcising Hitler Important . . . very commendable . . . fills an important gap in German history in English. -- Wall Street Journal on Exorcising Hitler

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Frederick Taylor is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Dresden and The Berlin Wall, both of which have appeared in many languages, and he also edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries: 1939-1941. He has lectured all over the world and appeared in several major television documentary series, including most recently the History Channel's The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall and PBS's The Wall: A World Divided. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives in Cornwall, England.

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