On Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer. It’s easy for modern commentators to regard the German Empire as no more than a violent chapter in European history.
The first modern German empire was announced by Otto von Bismarck at Versailles in 1871; it died on the Western Front in 1918. The second German empire was forged in a swift march of annexations and ...
On March 21, 1871, the German parliament convened in the Reichstag for the first time, exactly 150 years ago. It was an important step to democracy, though the chamber did not hold the German Empire's ...
It is not the parliament that must grant it. With this terse statement, Frederick William IV of Prussia rejected the title of Kaiser der Deutschen (Emperor of the Germans) offered to him by the ...
Historian Hoyer debuts with an accessible if abbreviated chronicle of Germany’s Second Reich focused on its two most important leaders. Statesman Otto von Bismarck rode the “intoxicating wave of ...
On The German Empire, 1871–1918, by Roger Chickering. Although he is too modest to claim the honor for himself, Roger Chickering is in many ways the dean of American scholars of modern German history.
The History Press will publish Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer for 150th anniversary of the unification of Germany. Commissioning editor Simon Wright ...
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