Review Article : Government and Politics in Germany 1918-45: A System in Crisis: Eberhard Kolb, The Weimar Republic (translated by P. S. Falla), London, Unwin Hyman, 1988; xiii + 237 pp.; 25.00 hardback, 7.95 paperback. Larry Eugene Jones, German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System 1918-1933, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1988; xvi + 660 pp.; US $46.75. Hans Otto Schotz, Der Kampf um die Mark 1923/34. Die deutsche Wahrungsstabilisierung unter dem Einfluss der nationalen Interessen Frankreichs, Grossbritanniens und der USA (Veroffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin, Vol. 68), Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1987; xi + 205 pp.; DM 88,-. Jane Caplan, Government Without Administration; State and Civil Service in Weimar and Nazi Germany, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988; xvii + 382 pp.; 35.00