André Maurois, a classic of French literature of the 20th century, the author of famous novelized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Shelley and Byron, is considered a true master of psychological prose. However, a significant part of the writer’s heritage consists of historical works. “The History of Germany” (1965) tells about the main stages of the formation of the German state: from the Germanic tribes that appeared on the territory of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of our era to the results of the Second World War unleashed by the Hitler regime...