Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the nineteenth century, except for Napoleon. He unified, and indeed, created, the country at the center of two world wars that would transform the world. This biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. The author draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends...

Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, who was chancellor of the German Reich from 1894 to 1900.

Examines the life and career of Otto von Bismark.