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.
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300 |a x, 577 p., [16] p. of plates :  |b ill., maps, ports. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-537) and index. 
505 0 |a Bismarck's "sovereign self" -- Bismarck : born Prussian and what that meant -- Bismarck : the "Mad Junker" -- Bismarck represents himself, 1847-1851 -- Bismarck as diplomat, 1851-1862 -- Power -- "I have beaten them all! All!" -- The unification of Germany, 1866-1870 -- The decline begins : liberals and Catholics -- "The guest house of the dead Jew" -- Three Kaisers and Bismarck's fall from power -- Conclusion : Bismarck's legacy : blood and irony. 
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