Blood And Iron

Author Katja Hoyer Price £14.99 Publisher The History Press

Katja Hoyer covers the 47 years from the unification of Germany in 1871 to the November Revolution of 1918 with impressive ease. Her well-illustrated book is based on considerable research and is always lively and readable. It offers a welcome reappraisal of the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who dominated the fledgling German Empire. Blood and Iron is an important and highly accessible survey of Germany’s Second Reich.