Blood and Iron

Blood and Iron
Author: Katja Hoyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1643138383

In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet 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.

Imperial Germany Revisited

Imperial Germany Revisited
Author: Sven Oliver Müller
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857452878

The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.

Inside the German Empire

Inside the German Empire
Author: Herbert Bayard Swope
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781330967508

Excerpt from Inside the German Empire: In the Third Year of the War Throughout the world there is, and should be, deep interest in the conditions - economic, political, spiritual and military - under which Germany and her allies are sustaining themselves after more than two years of war. The facts and impressions contained in this book, gathered first-hand by the author, whose friendship I value and whose professional equipment I admire, form an important contribution to contemporaneous history and possess a referential value for the future. No subject to-day is more vital or worthier of serious attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918
Author: Roger Chickering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107037689

This book represents the most comprehensive history of Germany during the First World War.

Germany's Empire in the East

Germany's Empire in the East
Author: David Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107198194

The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe.