1923

Gripping … Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, Mark Jones’s story of a democracy under terrible pressure is a warning for our times – Alexander Watson, author of RING OF STEEL
Fascinating … shows powerfully that there was nothing inevitable about the survival of Germany’s young democracy in that year - nor about its death a decade later. A timely reminder – Katja Hoyer, author of BLOOD AND IRON
Deftly written and lucid … a masterful interpretation of a fateful year – Robert Kershaw, author of DÜNKIRCHEN 1940
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, 1923 explains how Germany stood on the brink of chaos in that crisis year and then stepped back. Highly recommended – Roger Moorhouse, author of POLAND 1939
Scary … Jones’s book asks where we are today - at the end of the troubles, or at the beginning? – Peter Fritzsche, author of HITLER’S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS
A crisp and methodical chronicle of the year Germany went wrong … Jones traces the eruption in a deftly detailed and convincing narrative … His vivid history of Germany in 1923 is a timely alert to the dangers of repetition – Nicholas Shakespeare, author of SIX MINUTES IN MAY
A hundred years on, the profound crisis of 1923 seems uncomfortably similar to the challenges experienced by many democracies today: the rise of political extremism, runaway inflation, and resistance to foreign occupation are back in the news today, but they are certainly not new. Jones’s meticulously researched and splendidly written book brings this dark but forgotten year back to life – Robert Gerwarth, author of THE VANQUISHED
Riveting – Irish Independent
Refreshing and readable – Irish Times
A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative – Financial Times
Jones’s fascinating book gives us a timely lesson in the fragility of democracy – BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year
Excellent – Richard Evans
Gripping narrative of the extraordinary year in which Weimar Germany was struck by successive blows, though it somehow survived for another ten years – The Economist

Mark William Jones is Assistant Professor in History at University College Dublin. He is among the leading English language historians of modern Germany and a recognized authority on the history of the Weimar Republic. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and Irish radio’s Talking History. Mark was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Tubingen, and Cambridge University. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and Bielefeld University. 1923 was his first English language trade book.

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