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

Hoyer, Katja

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1643138375 ISBN 13: 9781643138374

Verlag: Pegasus Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.

Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea.

Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser?  How would he convince 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?

In this 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.

This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.

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Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian specializing in modern German history. She was born in East Germany and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and has written for History Today and the BBC's History Extra. Katja now lives in Sussex, England.

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• Verlag: Pegasus Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1643138375
• ISBN 13: 9781643138374
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 253
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