Bibliograph

Blood and iron, the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918, Katja Hoyer

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Blood and iron, the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918, Katja Hoyer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blood and iron

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1287092390

Responsibility statement

Katja Hoyer

Sub title

the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

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