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“Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself”: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945

byFlorian Huber

“Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself” is Florian Huber's historical account of the Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of history and psychology. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Little, Brown Spark

Publication date

Mar 10, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780316534307