<ul> <li style=margin-left: 36pt;> The book is an interesting account of being a historian in Germany in the decades after 1945</li> <li style=margin-left: 36pt;> The author searches for cohesiveness among the movements of the twenties and thirties</li> <li style=margin-left: 36pt;> The text is unique in its examination of the generation that came of age between the two world wars</li></ul>