{"product_id":"blood-and-iron-9781643138374","title":"Blood and Iron","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France-all without destroying itself in the process?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eoften startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatja Hoyer is a German-British historian specializing in modern German history. She was born in East Germany and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. She is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eand has written for \u003ci\u003eHistory Today \u003c\/i\u003eand the BBC's \u003ci\u003eHistory Extra\u003c\/i\u003e. Katja now lives in Sussex, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615532618002,"sku":"9781643138374","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63816abf-3231-46da-9aeb-473d6aa41b5a.jpg?v=1732493113","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-and-iron-9781643138374","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}