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BISMARCK - VOLKER ULLRICH KARTONIERT (TB)

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor  a reactionary and
militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War
I. But as Volker Ullrich shows in this new edition of his accessible biography  the real
Bismarck was far more complicated than the stereotype. A leading historian of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century history  Ullrich demonstrates that the Founder of the Reich was in fact an
opponent of liberal German nationalism. After the wars of 1866 and 1870  Bismarck spent the
rest of his career working to preserve peace in Europe and protect the empire he had created.
Despite his reputation as an enemy of socialism  he introduced comprehensive health and
unemployment insurance for German workers. Far from being a man of iron and blood  Bismarck was
in fact a complex statesman who was concerned with maintaining stability and harmony far beyond
Germany's newly unified borders. Comprehensive and balanced  Bismarck shows us the
post-reunification value of looking anew at this monumental figure's role in European history

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