An academic treatment of Bismarck
Review of Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
After reading the glowing NYT review by Henry Kissinger, I knew I had to read this book. However, after carefully reading it myself, I now wonder if Kissinger actually did because, while essential to understanding the 19th century and German history, this is a perfectly awful reading experience: abstruse, rambling, lacking sufficient context, and stylis…
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