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Review "... a closely reasoned, amply documented argument that should destroy one shibboleth after another... this fresh look at what many academics thought was a familiar topic will also have great interest for specialists on Germany." --History "... [an] excellent book." --Journal of European Economic History "Presents an economic history of West Germany from 1945-1955 that is accessible to the nonspecialist reader." --Economic Books: Current Selections Product Description This concise overview of the German `Economic Miracle` of the post-World War Two reconstruction years argues that the German economy was in a far healthier position at the end of the war than previously thought, and that the preconditions for growth - a skilled and abundant labour supply and a favourable international political climate - facilitated the phenomenal `recovery` and economic growth that was to follow.