About the Book: Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
A master storyteller The Times
Democracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical
events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic.
Fateful Hours tells one of the greatest dramas in world history: the failure of
Germanys first democracy, culminating in the horrific rise of the Third Reich.
But this tragedy was not inevitable. In this gripping new book, celebrated
historian Volker Ullrich charts the many failed alternatives and missed
opportunities that contributed to German democracys collapse. In an immersive
style that takes