Bismarck, the Hohenzollern Candidacy, and the Origins of the Franco-German War of 1870
Bismarck, the Hohenzollern Candidacy, and the Origins of the Franco-German War of 1870

Author: Lawrence D. Steefel

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2018-12-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1789124948

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It is known that the plan to elect a Prussian prince to the Spanish throne was the proximate, and Bismarck’s “Ems telegram” an immediate cause of the war of 1870. But much has remained obscure about the roles of the principal figures. Lawrence Steefel fills in the lacunae with secret German documents available only after World War II, including the correspondence between Bismarck and Marshal Prim of Spain. It becomes clear that Bismarck did not initiate the Hohenzollern candidacy and that one of his most important reasons for adopting it was his fear of an anti-Prussian coalition of Catholic powers.

The Hohenzollerns
The Hohenzollerns

Author: Herbert Eulenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-03

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1000007596

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Originally published in English in 1929, this book provides a history of the Hohenzollerns from the fifteenth century Frederick to Wilhelm III. Each chapter is devoted to the principal members of the house of Hohenzollern and presented in the form of short, biographical sketches, designed to interest and entertain the reader.

The Soldier Kings
The Soldier Kings

Author: Walter Henry Nelson

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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Characterizes the Hohenzollerns as eccentric, autocratic, and ambitious, with the worst examples ranging from petty tyrants to weaklings and the best exhibiting brilliance, vision, and tolerance.

The Guilt of William Hohenzollern
The Guilt of William Hohenzollern

Author: Karl Johann Kautsky

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13:

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The personality and position of Karl Kautsky puts his unique book in the front rank of authoritative records, and settles, once for all, the question of the personal responsibility of William Hohenzollern for the outbreak of the Great War. Appointed by the German Republican Government to examine the secret archives of the German Foreign Office, Kautsky was able to study the documents which passed between the German authorities and the other parties to the great conspiracy, documents which passed through the hands of the ex-Kaiser and bear his notes and comments, which showed William Hohenzollern as the driving force behind the war-party in Germany, as a man determined not to let slip what seemed so favorable an opportunity of settling accounts with Russia — and, if necessary, the world.

The Hohenzollerns in America
The Hohenzollerns in America

Author: Stephen Leacock

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 3861951169

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Mostly, but not solely satiric narrative about what happens, if Bolshevik easters go west.

Nazis and Nobles
Nazis and Nobles

Author: Stephan Malinowski

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0198842554

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The first ever in-depth study of the role played by the nobility in the Nazi rise to power in interwar Germany, this is a fascinating portrait of an aristocratic world teetering on the edge of self-destruction.

Iron Kingdom
Iron Kingdom

Author: Christopher Clark

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-09-06

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 014190402X

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'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ... The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' Sunday Telegraph