Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947With its capital in Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful countries in Europe, the scourge of its many enemies and, ultimately, the motor behind the creation of the German Empire in 1871 with all that implied for the 20th century. |
Contents
The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg | 1 |
Devastation | 19 |
An Extraordinary Light in Germany | 38 |
Majesty | 67 |
Protestants | 115 |
Powers in the Land | 145 |
Struggle for Mastery | 183 |
Dare to Know | 247 |
A Time of Iron | 345 |
Gods March through History | 388 |
Escalation | 436 |
Splendour and Misery of the Prussian Revolution | 468 |
Four Wars | 510 |
Merged into Germany | 556 |
Endings | 619 |
Notes | 689 |
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