Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ... The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' Sunday Telegraph |
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User Review - MiaCulpa - www.librarything.comThis took a long time to get going, and parts of "Iron Kingdom" read like a masters thesis. As such, it took me a year or so to finish and it was only the last section or so, as Prussia grew into the ... Read full review
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User Review - Schatkoffer - LibraryThingThe author clearly knows his subject, as he delivers tons of information about it. Usefull insights are, for instance, the fact that Prussia emerged out of the horror of the Thirty Year War, and that ... Read full review
Contents
List of Illustrations | |
List of Maps | |
Introduction | |
The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg | |
Devastation | |
An Extraordinary Light in Germany | |
Majesty | |
Protestants | |
Powers in the Land | |
Struggle for Mastery | |
Dare to Know | |
17891806 | |
The World the Bureaucrats Made | |
A Time of Iron | |
Gods March through History | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 |
| Author | Christopher Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin UK, 2007 |
| ISBN | 014190402X, 9780141904023 |
| Length | 816 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General History / Europe / Germany History / Modern / General |
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