Books in the Routledge Library Editions: German History series

Statistical physics is not a difficult subject, and I trust that this will not be found a difficult book. As a low-temperature physicist, I have always found a particular interest in statistical physics, and especially in how the absolute zero is approached.

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of political re-education from its origins to 1951. `

Originally published in 1981, this book discusses key issues such as the origins of the First World War, the psychological impact of that war on the Germans, the enigmatic personality of Walter Rathenau, anti-semitism and paramilitarism, as well as German Ostpolitik during the Weimar period.

When it was originally published in 1982, this book presented pioneering new research into the everyday life of the German working class in the crucial decades between the accession of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Nazi seizure of power.

Originally published in 1981 this book deals with many the Weimar period, including the revolutionary events following the First World War; the development of the Reichswehr; the role of heavy industry in shaping foreign policy, and the dissolution of the bourgeois party system during the last years before 1933.