Gold and Iron Bismark, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire |
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Author:
| Stern, Fritz |
ISBN: | 978-0-394-74034-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1979 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.36 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award "A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history--the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy." --James Joll,
The New York Times Book Review "I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work of original scholarship, both exact and profound. It restores a buried...
More Description Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award
Nominated for the National Book Award
"A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history--the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy." --James Joll, The New York Times Book Review
"I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work of original scholarship, both exact and profound. It restores a buried chapter of history and penetrates, with insight and understanding, one of the most disturbing historical problems of modern times." --Hugh J. Trevor-Roper, London Sunday Times
"[An] extraordinary book, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century." --Stanley Hoffman, Washington Post Book World
"One of the most important historical works of the past few decades." --Golo Mann
"In many ways this book resembles the great nineteenth-century novels." --The Economist