Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron
Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling
account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's
fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a
medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European
power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until
it was finally abolished by the Allies after the Second World War.
With great flair and authority, Christopher Clark describes
Prussia's great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing
reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from
the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the
Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values
on which it was built. 'Fascinating ... masterly ... littered with
intriguing detail and wry observation' Richard Overy, Daily
Telegraph 'A terrific book ... the definitive history of this
much-maligned state' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'You
couldn't have the triumph and the tragedy of Prussia better told'
Observer 'A magisterial history of Europe's only extinct power'
Financial Times 'Exemplary ... an illuminating, profoundly
satisfying work of history' The New York Times Christopher Clark is
a lecturer in Modern European History at St Catharine's College,
University of Cambridge. He is also the author of Kaiser Wilhelm
II: A Life in Power.
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