Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500

by Peter H. Wilson

Book Overview

From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before the rise of Prussia and the world wars.

German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674987624
• ISBN13: 9780674987623
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 976 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"