Bismarck: A Life

by Jonathan Steinberg

Book Overview

This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.

Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199782520
• ISBN13: 9780199782529
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 9.3" x 6.5"