Best Selling Books by Edward Crankshaw

The awesome figure of Otto von Bismarkck, the "Iron Chancellor", dominated Europe in the late nineteenth century. His legendary political genius and ruthless will, engineered Prussia's stunning defeat of the Autrian Empire and, in 1871, led to his most dazzling achievement. - the defeat of France and the unification of Germany. In this highly acclaimed biography, Edward Crankshow provieds a perceptive look at the career of the First Reich's mighty founder - at his brilliant abilities and severe limitations as well as at the people who granted him the power to transform the shape and destiny of Europe.