Volume 37, Number 11 · June 28, 1990
The Way to the Wall
By Gordon A. Craig
German History, 1770-1866
(The Oxford History of Modern Europe), by James J. Sheehan
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 969 pp., $64.00
Bismarck, The White Revolutionary, Vol. I, 1815-1871, Vol. II, 1871-1898
by Lothar Gall, translated by J.A. Underwood
Unwin Hyman, Vol. II, 288 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Bürgertum in Deutschland
by Lothar Gall
Siedler Verlag, 640 pp., DM58
Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990
by Christian Graf von Krockow
Rowohlt, 549 pp., DM46
Letters to Freya, 1939-1945
by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited and translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen
Knopf, 412 pp., $24.95
At the end of his impressive biography of Bismarck, which was first published in Germany in 1980, Lothar Gall notes that it was during the period in which the chancellor dominated the political scene that Germany acquired its historical identity. This, he makes clear, has had unfortunate results:
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