In a remarkably vibrant narrative, Michael Stürmer blends high politics, social history, portraiture, and an unparalleled command of military and economic developments to tell the story of Germany’s breakneck rise from new nation to Continental superpower. It begins with the German military’s greatest triumph, the Franco-Prussian War, and then tracks the forces of unification, industrialization, colonization, and militarization as they combined to propel Germany to become the force that fatally destabilized Europe’s balance of power. Without The German Empire’s masterly rendering of this story, a full understanding of the roots of World War I and World War II is impossible.
- ISBN10 1299000924
- ISBN13 9781299000926
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 14 November 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Modern Library
- Format eBook
- Language English