Bismarck : a Life.
This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We...
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OUP Oxford,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Maps; 1 Introduction: Bismarck's 'Sovereign Self '; 2 Bismarck: Born Prussian and What That Meant; 3 Bismarck: The 'Mad Junker'; 4 Bismarck Represents Himself, 1847-1851; 5 Bismarck as Diplomat, 1851-1862; 6 Power; 7 'I have beaten them all! All!'; 8 The Unification of Germany, 1866-1870; 9 The Decline Begins: Liberals and Catholics; 10 'The Guest House of the Dead Jew'; 11 Three Kaisers and Bismarck's Fall from Power; 12 Conclusion. Bismarck's Legacy: Blood and Irony; Notes; Bibliography; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index.