Blood and Iron Audiobook Libro.fm

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In a unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War

Before 1871 Germany was not a nation but an idea Its founder Otto von Bismarck had a formidable task at hand How would he bring thirtynine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser convincing proud Prussians Bavarians and Rhinelanders to become Germans Once united could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France all without destroying itself in the process

The best biography of the Second Reich in years It will undoubtedly become the essential account of this vitally important part of European history ANDREW ROBERTS