Bismarck: The Story Of A Fighter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st eng ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: cracked rear hinges reinforced with tape, otherwise sound copy for age.
Few figures in modern European history loom as large — or as controversially — as Otto von Bismarck, and Emil Ludwig's Bismarck: The Story of a Fighter presents one of the most vivid and penetrating portraits of the Iron Chancellor ever committed to the page. Drawing on a vast wealth of historical record and personal correspondence, Ludwig chronicles the life of Prussia's master statesman from his tempestuous early years to his towering role as the architect of a unified German nation, capturing a man of ferocious willpower, political genius, and barely contained contradictions. Translated with elegance and precision by Eden and Cedar Paul, this English edition brings Ludwig's dynamic prose to a wider audience, ensuring that none of the dramatic tension or psychological sharpness is lost in translation. Ludwig was among the foremost practitioners of the literary biography genre that flourished in the early twentieth century, renowned for his ability to illuminate the inner lives of great historical figures with the narrative momentum of a novelist. Bismarck: The Story of a Fighter stands as a landmark work in that tradition, arguing that Bismarck's genius lay not merely in strategy or diplomacy, but in an almost preternatural instinct for power — its acquisition, its application, and its ruthless defence. Readers who believe they understand Bismarck will find Ludwig's portrait unsettling, revelatory, and utterly impossible to put down.
Author: Emil Ludwig
Format: Hardback
Published: 1927, George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st eng ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: cracked rear hinges reinforced with tape, otherwise sound copy for age.
Few figures in modern European history loom as large — or as controversially — as Otto von Bismarck, and Emil Ludwig's Bismarck: The Story of a Fighter presents one of the most vivid and penetrating portraits of the Iron Chancellor ever committed to the page. Drawing on a vast wealth of historical record and personal correspondence, Ludwig chronicles the life of Prussia's master statesman from his tempestuous early years to his towering role as the architect of a unified German nation, capturing a man of ferocious willpower, political genius, and barely contained contradictions. Translated with elegance and precision by Eden and Cedar Paul, this English edition brings Ludwig's dynamic prose to a wider audience, ensuring that none of the dramatic tension or psychological sharpness is lost in translation. Ludwig was among the foremost practitioners of the literary biography genre that flourished in the early twentieth century, renowned for his ability to illuminate the inner lives of great historical figures with the narrative momentum of a novelist. Bismarck: The Story of a Fighter stands as a landmark work in that tradition, arguing that Bismarck's genius lay not merely in strategy or diplomacy, but in an almost preternatural instinct for power — its acquisition, its application, and its ruthless defence. Readers who believe they understand Bismarck will find Ludwig's portrait unsettling, revelatory, and utterly impossible to put down.