![]() ![]() Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust.Īftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Featuring a powerful cast of characters, Aftermath delves deep into a frighteningly realistic 'what if' scenario, showcasing both the prepared and unprepared, and showing what tenacity. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. Aftermath is an oversized (100k+ words per book) six-book survival/thriller series from Muonic Press, the 3-year 1 indie publisher of post-apoc fiction. ![]() In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? ![]() Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' TELEGRAPH This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent * Daily Mail Journalist Philip Bumps first book is 'The Aftermath.' AMY DRUCKER Amy Drucker By Colette Bancroft Times staff Published Jan. ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE*** At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma, this bravely and beautifully written book examines the undoing and remaking. ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*** ![]()
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