Bruce Waller, Senior Lecturer in the University of Wales, Swansea, has written widely on Bismarck and aspects of German history.

• 1. Birth, School and Early Years, 1815-1847. 2. Realpolitik.3. Bismarck and German Unification.4. Bismarck, the Nation and the Constitution.5. Imperial Foreign Policy.6. Bismarck, the Catholics and the Workers: the Limits of Power.7. The Social and Economic Interpretation of German History.8. Bismarck, Militarism and the Military.9. Bismarck: the Chancellor at Home in the Seventies and Eighties.10. Assessment References and Further Reading.Index.