Fateful Hours

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

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Hardcover | 17 February 2026

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Democracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic.

Fateful Hours tells one of the greatest dramas in world history: the failure of Germany's first democracy, culminating in the horrific rise of the Third Reich.

But this tragedy was not inevitable. In this gripping new book, celebrated historian Volker Ullrich charts the many failed alternatives and missed opportunities that contributed to German democracy's collapse. In an immersive style that takes us to the heart of political power, Ullrich argues that, right up until January 1933, history was open - just as in the present, it is up to us whether democracy lives or dies.

About the Author

Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose previous books include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower, 1871-1918. Ullrich was for many years editor of the political books review section of Die Zeit. His two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler was a German bestseller.

Jefferson Chase is a writer, translator and journalist based in Berlin. He has translated more than a dozen German texts into English, including The Writers' Castle by Uwe Neumahr, also available from Pushkin.

Industry Reviews

'Volker Ullrich proves that German historians can also write elegantly and captivatingly. More exciting than many a thriller' - Der Spiegel
'An exciting non-fiction book that reads like a novel' - Berlin.Table

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