Trentmann tells the dramatic story of the Germans from the middle of the Second World War, through the division into East and West, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunited nation's search for a place in the world. Through a range of voices - German soldiers and German Jews; families and churches; volunteers, migrants and populists - Trentmann paints a remarkable portrait over 80 years of the conflicted people at the centre of Europe. A startling new history of Germany, from the Second World War to today.