'Idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect.'Sir Tom Stoppard'There is so much fascinating detail in this book that it is hard to put down' Michael Burleigh'He has created a genre all of his own,...

After victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a...

Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious...

Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Habsburger: mit Witz und Charme erzählt Keine andere Herrscherfamilie in Europa war über einen derart langen Zeitraum so mächtig wie die Habsburger. Simon Winder erzählt die Geschichte dieser legendären...

Lotharingia von Winder, Simon

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times...

«Gut gelaunt und geistreich.» Frankfurter Rundschau Kaum ein Engländer betritt freiwillig deutschen Boden, ohne dafür berufliche Gründe zu haben. Ein Fehler, meint Simon Winder. Er selbst ist regelrecht besessen von Deutschland. So nimmt...

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.For centuries the very peculiar Habsburg family ruled most of Central Europe and Germany. From their principal lairs along the Danube this unstable mixture of wizards,...

"Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between" ist ein detailliertes und faszinierendes Geschichtswerk des Autors Simon Winder. Es erforscht die reiche und komplexe Geschichte der Region, die heute als...

Danubia von Winder, Simon

'A splendid offering' Financial Times'An idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect' Sir Tom StoppardGermania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate...