Prost!

In Prost! author Horst Dornbusch has extracted from his vast knowledge of German history and beer all of its best parts, and mixed into a fine brew. 141 b/w illustrations and photos, 1 table

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When you think of Germany, you think of beer. The country known for Oktoberfest comes alive in this intriguing, entertaining, and humorous account of beer's influential role in German history. Covering every time period from the ancient world to the Dark and Middle Ages, from the rise and fall of empires to the Thirty Years War, Prost! traces the political and cultural history of German beer.