Germans: the Biography of an Obsession (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)

First published 20 years ago, this book has been revised and reissued to reflect the changes that have taken place in Germany since then and more particularly since reunification in 1990. The book examines the vexed question of German nationhood, and asks whether the new unified Germany is free of the influences that have made German nationalism such a menace in the past. The book also examines the economic and diplomatic successes of the Federal Republic in the past 20 years, describes the current German political scene, the attitude of Germans to the superpowers and the importance of ecological issues. There is also some discussion of German-speaking peoples in other countries, especially Austria, where the Waldheim affair provoked heated debate about attitudes towards the country's Nazi past.