Iron Kingdom: Rise And Downfall Of Prussia, 1600-1947

Description: 'Of the 'Great Powers' that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ...'Iron Kingdom' is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' - 'Sunday Telegraph'. Prizes: Winner of NSW Premier's History Award: General History Prize 2007. Author Biography: Christopher Clark is a lecturer in Modern European History at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge. His previous book was a biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II.