Felix BrandtFelix Brandt writes about German history with a focus on how ideas meet hard power. His work explores the gap between public rhetoric and the private mechanics of statecraft, using archives, memoirs, and economic data to reconstruct how decisions aremade under pressure. Raised among stories shaped by borders and their sudden shifts, he brings a steady curiosity to episodes that unsettled Europe's map and memory. Brandt's mission is to give readers tools to read policy as practice rather than posture, tracing how railways, resources, and narratives move in step. He has published widely on twentieth-century Europe and regularly contributes essays that connect past bargains with today's dilemmas without forcing analogies. His approach is calm, source-led, and sceptical of easy moral alibis. Read More Read Less