num_pages: 776
description: Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests of Napoleon, and from the "iron and blood" policies of Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire in 1871, with all that implied for the tumultuous twentieth century.
language: English
title: Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
titlecomplete: Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
characters: Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Frederick the Great, Paul von Hindenburg, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Adolf Hitler, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, William II, German Emperor, Frederick William III of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Frederick William IV of Prussia
genres: Germany, Politics, Historical, European History, World History, Military Fiction, German Literature, War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 4617
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Wolfson History Prize
publisher: Belknap Press