Bismarck

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality.

(Oxford)

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Wall Street Journal the best biography of the Iron Chancellor to date

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Daily Telegraph Jonathan Steinberg delivers the best biography of Bismarck...superb.

Daily Express Steinberg succeeds in getting inside the mind of [Bismarck]

Radio Times Amazing story...Steinberg reveals the character contours...as never before.

Daniel Johnson, New Criterion Magnificent...brings out the monstrous egotism of Bismarck more clearly than anybody before him...Steinberg has brilliantly transformed this man of "blood and iron" into a tragic figure worthy to be compared with Goethe's Faust

Booklist If scholars and history buffs want to meet Bismarck in flesh and blood, they need go no further.

Independent Astute biography

01/06/11 A fine lively and scholarly biography

Wall Street Journal A fascinating biography...Steinberg breathes more life into Bismarck than any other biographer...the result is riveting, and we experience Bismarck as a hulking, breathing presence.

Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review An incisive psychological approach

London Review of Books superb biography

Henry Kissinger, New York Times Book Review The best study of its subject in the English language

Irish Times Fine biography

David Blackbourn, The Guardian Steinberg has an eye for details...and a talent for reconstructing the political drama of the period...Perhaps the greatest single pleasure of this books, and its signiture quality, [is] the unusually generous helping of quotations from those who came under Bismarck's spell.'

David Blackbourn, The Guardian This is the best one-volume life of Bismarck in English, much superior to older works. It brings us close to this galvanic, contradictory and ultimately self-destructive figure...'

Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Times Rich and readable

The Scotsman This is a fine biography.

Tim Blanning, Literary Review Magnificent new biography.

Foreign Affairs A first-rate biography that combines a standard historical narrative with an intriguing account of Bismarck as a personality...Bismarck offers a fresh and compelling portrait of a fascinating character.

(Oxford)

1. Introduction; 2. Born Prussian and What that Meant; 3. The 'Mad Junker'; 4. Bismarck Represents Himself, 1847 to 1851; 5. Bismarck as Diplomat 1851-1862; 6. Power; 7. 'I have beaten them all! All!'; 8. The Unification of Germany 1866 to 1870; 9. The Decline Begins: Liberals and Catholics; 10. 'The Guest House of the Dead Jew'; 11. Three Kaisers and Bismarck's Fall from Power; 12. Conclusion: Bismarck and His Legacy; Bibliography; Index

(Oxford)