Christopher Krebs

When, at the height of the Roman Empire, the historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering book about the German tribes, he could not have foreseen that centuries later it would be distorted into claiming Germanic superiority and, ultimately, become the perfect vehicle for Nazi ideology. But the Germania inspired-and polarized-readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs,...