Bismarck’s “Reflections and Reminiscences”
Author: Horst Kohl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 3112660641
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Author: Horst Kohl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 3112660641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Otto Bismarck (Fürst von)
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 402
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Published: 1898
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Moffat
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1409082199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early hours of the 27th of May, 1941, the German warship Bismarck - scourge of the Atlantic ocean - was sailing towards a fateful encounter. Two days previously, Prime Minister Winston Churchill had issued the order to "Sink the Bismarck". High winds and low visibility added to the atrocious morning weather as Fleet Air Arm pilot, John Moffat, took to the air in his open cockpit bomber. Along with twelve other brave pilots, John Moffat took down the largest warship of its time. A warship that had destroyed the famed HMS Hood within minutes, and was able to withstand anything the British military threw at them. These men, in their Swordfish, managed to avoid the fearful anti-aircraft fire and launched their torpedoes. One of them hit, holing the German warship. This is his story - of how as a young man he experienced first-hand the titanic struggle for naval supremacy, the cramped-cabins and meagre rations of WW2, the mind-numbing patrols over hundreds of miles of ocean and the adrenalin and fear of being in a fragile aircraft sought out by gunfire. As the only surviving member of his fellow pilots, John Moffat tells of everything that led him to be able to say, "I sank the Bismarck".
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0199782660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck's personality. He was a kind of malign genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them. As one contemporary noted: "the Bismarck regime was a constant orgy of scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually." In this comprehensive and expansive biography--a brilliant study in power--Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the stark contrast between the "Iron Chancellor's" unmatched political skills and his profoundly flawed human character.