Schmidt was an Austrian diplomat who served as Foreign Minister 1936-1938. With access to previously unpublished family papers, Bassett shows how this controversial figure in fact tried to maintain Austrian independence in the years preceding the Anschluss. A nuanced and compelling account.
Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria
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Marvellously researched account of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first (and short-lived) democracy.
November 1918: The German Revolution
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A companion volume to his Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (pbk £25), tracing Bach's evolution as a composer and looking deeply into his creative process.
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Focuses on the lives of six individuals and their families who were among the 20 million Germans who never voted for the Nazis. This is an important new assessment of those who had to manage... read more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
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