Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. 3: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 [Hardcover]

Otto Pflanze (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 488 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; 2nd edition (October 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691055890
• ISBN-13: 978-0691055893
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,902,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magisterial!, October 23, 1999

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Schmerguls "schmerguls" (Sioux City, Ia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. 3: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 (Hardcover)

I have just finished reading this book and the preceding two volumes. This is very solid work, and if you appreciate, as I do, feeling that an author has done good and careful research you will like these volumes. I have concluded that to really understand the Hitler period one must learn more about the 19th century in Germany. It seems to me that Bismarck, by his brilliant defense of autocratic rule in Germany, helped make Hitler possible. The footnotes in these volumes are where they are supposed to be--at the foot of each page--but it is regrettable that there is no bibliography as such.

5.0 out of 5 stars Pflanze - The Bismarck Source in English, May 22, 2005

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William Hopke (Titusville, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. 3: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 (Hardcover)

This three volume biography (this is vol III)on Bismarck is the definitive work on the man. Pflanze is unsurpassed by other lesser biographers on this subject. If you want to learn about Bismarck these three volumes are what to read.