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John Hubert Greusel. Blood and Iron
Blood and Iron
Table of Contents
BOOK THE FIRST
Bismarck’s Human Essence
CHAPTER I. The Man Himself
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4
CHAPTER II. Blood Will Tell
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7
CHAPTER III. The Gothic Cradle
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9
CHAPTER IV. Sunshine and Shadow
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13
BOOK THE SECOND
The German National Problem
CHAPTER V. The Great Sorrow
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15
CHAPTER VI. Prussia’s De Profundis
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BOOK THE THIRD
Bismarck Supports His King
CHAPTER VII. Fighting Fire With Fire
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CHAPTER VIII. Bismarck Suffers a Great Shock
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29
CHAPTER IX. So Much the Worse for Zeitgeist
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BOOK THE FOURTH
Blood is Thicker than Water
CHAPTER X. Socrates in Politics
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CHAPTER XI. The Mailed Fist
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40
CHAPTER XII. By Blood and Iron
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CHAPTER XIII. The Dream of Empire
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BOOK THE FIFTH
The German People Are One and United
CHAPTER XIV. Windrows of Corpses
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CHAPTER XV. The Great Year, 1870
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CHAPTER XVI. The Versailles Masterpiece
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BOOK THE SIXTH
Once a Man and Twice a Child
CHAPTER XVII. The Downfall
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CHAPTER XVIII. Hail and Farewell
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John Hubert Greusel
Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck
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Among the men Bismarck met at this bar was Albrecht von Roon, who many years later was to become the great Prussian military drill-master.
¶ Bismarck finally left Goettingen in August, ’33; his last duel was with an Englishman who had made fun of the German peasant, describing that worthy as “a dunce in a night cap, whose night-dress is made of 39 rags.” The 39 rags was an allusion to the 39 petty German states. Bismarck was already becoming imbued with the “national German faith,” as it was called, and could not let the insult go by.
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