The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
Germans had a huge influence on the arts and sciences. This book goes through them in excruciating detail. Just when it feels it is about to end, it goes on again. It is written well, but the details feel like an encyclopedia. Mahler, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud are a few mentioned. Gauss and Engels are consigned to an appendix of lesser known Germans. It is interesting to read an intellectual history from a German perspective. Hitler seems to have stunted our opinion of Germans as a whole, but we still have respect for the individuals.
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