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William Urban: A short history of Germany


William Urban: A short history of Germany
By William Urban
Every Christmas I exchange books with a German friend. He is very good at picking interesting reads. This year’s was “Wie wir wurden, was wir sind” (How we became what we are), with the subtitle and the foreword promising that it would be a short history. Short is not something that German authors excel at, but Heinrich August Winker did his best. He also had a pleasing style, especially in the early chapters, which could be read by anyone who knows German. By the end the words became longer and the sentences more complex, reflecting the need to explain current issues in the language that politicians and journalists use today. (Germany is where modern scholarly style and jargon originated.) ....

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