Volume 38, Number 3 · January 31, 1991
The Reich Stuff
By Gordon A. Craig
Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa August–November 1990
an exhibition at the Deutsches Historische Museum, Berlin,
Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa
catalog of the exhibition
Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 526 pp., DM 29.80
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 1815–1871
by Otto Pflanze
Princeton University Press, 518 pp., complete set, $95.00
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871–1880
by Otto Pflanze
Princeton University Press, 554 pp., complete set, $95.00
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 1880–1898
by Otto Pflanze
Princeton University Press, 474 pp., complete set, $95.00
Bismarck: Das Reich in der Mitte Europas
by Ernst Engelberg
Siedler Verlag, 731 pp., DM 58
In an article written in 1949, Thomas Mann quoted an observation by Nietzsche to the effect that a people (Volk) was Nature's roundabout way of producing three or four great men. This was a very German saying, Mann wrote, and one to which the Germans would be more willing to assent than any other people in the world, because
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