Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xiv, 396+. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 070062600X The Kaiserreich at War Contrary to the title, the history of the German Army in ...
Historian Hoyer debuts with an accessible if abbreviated chronicle of Germany’s Second Reich focused on its two most important leaders. Statesman Otto von Bismarck rode the “intoxicating wave of ...
On Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer. It’s easy for modern commentators to regard the German Empire as no more than a violent chapter in European history.
On The German Empire, 1871–1918, by Roger Chickering. Although he is too modest to claim the honor for himself, Roger Chickering is in many ways the dean of American scholars of modern German history.