Munich: From Monks to Modernity

Munich? Grand capital of Bavaria: city of art, the Oktoberfest and Germany’s high-tech capital. It’s also the birthplace of Nazism, home to the British and French policy of ‘Appeasement’ and the tragedy of the 1972 Olympics. Few cities suffer from such a complex collection of contrasting images, and stereotypes, as Munich does. 


Munich’s history is packed with figures of European import, ranging from Holy Roman Emperors to artists such as Wassily Kandinsky; and from towering literary figures of the calibre of Thomas Mann to football greats such as Franz Beckenbauer. Munich: From Monks to Modernity was a first much-needed English-language history of the Bavarian capital when published as a hard back in 2010. Now completely updated to reflect recent research and events to take it up to 2020, this ebook version is a vivid introduction to more than 860 years of Munich’s history. 


Paul Wheatley is a writer, journalist & historian from the UK. He has been living in, and writing about, Munich since 2004.


www.paul-wheatley.eu

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