Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...producing the war is indirect rather than direct; neither her government nor her people had the slightest desire for a World War. Instead of dragging Austria into the struggle as most people believed a few years ago, she was dragged in by her ally. That a statesman of Bismarck's strength or Bulow...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...
...Beginnings of Bismarck's Ministry. Europe and the Polish Revolution of 1863," Professor Langer, Harvard 6, History...
History affords few opportunities for a more interesting comparison than that of the unification of Italy with the unification of Germany, and the life of Cavour with that of Bismarck. Until the middle of the last century Italy and Germany were, as has been well said, merely geographic expressions. How these "expressions" were made to apply to more than geography is a fascinating if somewhat unedifying story...
Much the some problem, it is true con-confronted Cavour and Bismarck, but it is in the difference of treatment, and particularly in the history of the two nations in the years immediately after their unification that the chief interest lies. "Italy's appetite", said Bismarck, "had grown before its teeth." He saw to it that Germany grew teeth first...