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Author Krebs, Christopher B.

Title A most dangerous book : Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich / Christopher B. Krebs.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  936.3 KRE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5318 KRE    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  936.302 KRE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  936.3 K87M    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  936.302 KREBS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-285) and index.
Contents The Roman conquest of the Germanic myth -- Survival and rescue -- The birth of the German ancestors -- Formative years -- Heroes' songs -- The Volk of free-spirited northerners -- White blood -- A bible for national socialists.
Summary Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.
Subject Tacitus, Cornelius. Germania.
Group identity -- Germany.
ISBN 9780393062656 hardcover
0393062651 hardcover
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