On the under-rated YouTube channel "WW2TV" she does a lecture on the rise of Nazism starting in 1918 (which is when you have to start that story). The channel is long form, the episode is an hour or so, but she covers everything, very engagingly and concisely.

Considering how misunderstood this period is, and how intricate it can be, it's a real treasure to have it laid out so clearly.

Indeed! It isn't just political conditions like wars that make people move, but many parts of Germany urbanised and industrialised, causing much social dislocation.

"Blood and Iron" by Katja Hoyer is a wonderful description of the Bismarck-Wilhelmite period during which Germany unified, militarized and emerged as a superpower.

Considering how much is in it, it is amazingly short. Vital background for those interested in the World Wars and how they came about.

Thanks for this list. I like a sad song. I'd add some Cannons... maybe "Ruthless" or "Pretty Boy".

There is no parallel (obviously, I sure you're aware) because the rise of the US was so dependant on the wars in Europe and massive wealth transfers from nations involved in mutual destruction.

Certainly the early 20th Century was when the US went from being mainly resource-based, to seeing a real explosion of manufacturing. This was accelerated by its self sufficiency, indigenous focus on industrial methods, markets, and ability to borrow ideas from Europe and people from everywhere.

China has industrialised so much more quickly but factories and manufactured goods are no longer the valuable and exclusive items they were: high tech manufacture has appeared and surpassed making consumer goods. Capital is now global so the conflicts of 100 years ago are, to an extent, obsolete.

Keeping the wealth from all this production within a country was not much of a concern 100 years ago: today, all the profit can flow out of a nation very easily.

So, if "China" makes an iPhone but the end user and profit takers are in the US, and the manufacture is done as cheaply as possible with equipment that can be removed, how "Chinese" is it?

An impressive overview.

If OP wants a manageable summary I recommend the relevant chapters in Adam Tooze's "Deluge".

Linger, The Cranberries; The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack; Ordinary World, Duran Duran; Something Spooked the Horses, The Fauves; Nothing Compares to You, Sinead O'Connor; Oh Woman, Oh Man, or, Strong, London Grammar. Heartbreaker, Dionne Warwick; Fade Into You, Mazzy Star;