Weimar Germany

''Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today'' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

In the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place ''of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism, where art and riot flourished side by side.''

The Weimar Republic was Germany''s postwar experimen...