![]() ![]() This is so basic a pronunciation error as to suggest an abject lack of attention to detail by the production team. The most aggravating lapse was the narrators' pronunciation of Bis-MARK as Bis-MOCK for most of the book i.e., hundreds of times, correcting only in the last third or so after Bismarck's departure from the scene. ![]() The narration detracted significantly from the quality of this book. On the other hand, those interested in more of a social history of Germany during this period will find much to like. Major events, such as the delicate balance of power maintained by Bismarck after the Franco-Prussian war, and the impact of the dreadnought race on German foreign policy, are given the most perfunctory treatment. This book provides a workmanlike account of the German Empire, suitable for a general understanding but without any great depth. 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. ![]() In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of German Empire’s beginning to its defeat in World War I. How would he bring 39 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? Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. This vivid 50-year history of Germany from 1871-1918 - which inspired events that forever changed the European continent - is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.īefore 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. ![]()
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