EAN: 9780141988887

IRON AND BLOOD - PETER H WILSON KARTONIERT (TB)

*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY* *A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE
YEAR 2022* 'No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous
book' Simon Heffer  Daily Telegraph Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing
book  encompassing five centuries of political  military  technological and economic change to
tell the story of the German-speaking lands  from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier  from
Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development
to recruitment to battlefield strategy. Germans' military impact on the rest of Europe has been
immense. If there is one constant it has been the sense of being beset by seemingly more
powerful enemies - France or Russia or Turkey - and the need to strike a rapid knockout blow to
ensure a favourable result. Almost inevitably  this has in practice meant protracted 
relentless and often unwinnable wars  and - in 1939-1945 - moral catastrophe. The author of
definitive books on the Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years War  Peter Wilson has with Iron
and Blood written his masterpiece. 'Hugely impressive' Richard J. Evans  Times Literary
Supplement

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