Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: Our time xi
4. Destroyed (1945)
5. Westen 1
6. Hell 8
7. Osten 11
8. Zero, recurring 15
9. Of fathers and fatherlands 18
10. The memory engine 21
11. Divided (1961– 1979)
12. Curfew 25
13. Europes 35
14. Being there 41
15. Kaleidotapestry 45
16. Hamlet and the Yellow Submarine 49
17. Rome 57
18. Cold War West 66
19. Friedrichstrasse, East 74
20. Rising (1980– 1989)
21. Freedom’s battle 83
22. 1984 95
23. 68ers and post- 68ers 102
24. Angelo Gotti 112
25. Spectator Britain 121
26. The upward turn 128
27. Joachim 140
28. Wall’s fall 144
29. Triumphing (1990– 2007)
30. Post-Wall world 151
31. The enlargement of the West 158
32. Integration and disintegration 164
33. Good King Wenceslas 168
34. Genocide again 177
35. Fish soup 189
36. Freedom and its discontents 195
37. One coin to bind them all 203
38. From 9/11 to 9/11 211
39. Muslims in Europe 217
40. Cool Britannia 225
41. Hubris 236
42. Faltering (2008– 2022)
43. Zweig and the downward turn 243
44. Euro, crisis 248
45. Clash of empires 256
46. Charlie Hebdo 266
47. ‘Invaders’ 273
48. Brexit 279
49. Demolition 294
50. A new Iron Curtain 308
51. War in Ukraine 321
52. Delphi 331
53. Epilogue: On a Normandy Beach 343
54. A note from the author 350
55. Index of people and places 352