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Bismarck a life

Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the 19thcentury--except for Napoleon. This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.

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Main Author: Steinberg, Jonathan
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Bismarck, Otto, > Fürst von, > 1815-1898.
Statesmen > Germany > Biography.
Germany > Politics and government > 1871-1888.
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Summary:Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the 19thcentury--except for Napoleon. This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
Physical Description:x, 577 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-537) and index.
ISBN:0199599017 (hbk.)
9780199599011 (hbk.)
0199782520 (alk. paper)
9780199782529 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, and Emeritus Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of Yesterday's Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet (1965), Why Switzerland? (2nd ed.1996) and All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to 1943 (classic edition 2002). He was also the principal author of The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions during the Second World War (1999).

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