Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 by Katja Hoyer

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918

Katja Hoyer

258 pages first pub 2021 (view editions) user-added

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A reader who relishes sweeping yet accessible accounts that illuminate how modern states are forged and fractured through high-stakes diplomacy, social ferment, and war will feel at home here.

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Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Otto von Bismarck had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? Once united, could the young European nation wield e...

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