And the balance of power in Europe shifted, as Katja Hoyer recounts in her history of the nation, from its unification through the First World War. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German ...

Germany's last emperor, a gilded porcelain vase and a general who had a heart attack in a pink tutu: The Eulenburg Affair ...

On Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer. It’s easy for modern commentators to regard the German Empire as no more than a violent chapter in European history.

9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

January 11, 1966 was rather a red-letter day in German industrial history. For the first time since the gigantic Krupp empire was founded a century and a half ago, Krupp shares were sold on the public ...

Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But this colonial history is not told as often as that of other imperialist nations. A new book called The Long Shadow of ...