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 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.
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 ...
Kaiser Wilhelm II at the Imperial Parade in 1907. Wilhelm was the last ruler of the German empire which has once again become a topic of political discussion. Photo: DPA Germany's far right is trying ...
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 ...
The German Empire, in preparation since 1848 and founded in 1871, experienced an unprecedented heyday and – although not only through fault of its own – took the wrong path. Richard von Weizsäcker, ...
Germany's far right is trying to rehabilitate the German Empire and its role in World War I, resuming a decades-old debate ahead of the centenary of the armistice. The magazine Compact, which is close ...
Germany's far right is trying to rehabilitate the German Empire and its role in World War I, resuming a decades-old debate ahead of the centenary of the armistice. The magazine Compact, which is close ...
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