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Otto von Bismarck

1815–1898

Otto von Bismarck was the Prussian statesman who engineered German unification through diplomacy and wars against Denmark, Austria and France. As the first chancellor of the German Empire he balanced European alliances, fought political and religious opponents and introduced pioneering social insurance before dismissal by Wilhelm II.

Otto von Bismarck also held the offices or ranks of Graf, Fürst, duke, and auscultator. Otto von Bismarck belonged to the House of Bismarck and operated within Kingdom of Prussia; German Reich. Otto von Bismarck was born in Schönhausen (Elbe) and died in Friedrichsruh.

In Thomas Pakenham’s The Scramble for Africa: The White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, Henry Morton Stanley’s work for Leopold II, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza’s French treaties and Otto von Bismarck’s Berlin Conference illustrate how claims made on paper were converted into colonies, protectorates and concessionary states. In George MacDonald Fraser’s Royal Flash, Flashman’s affair with the celebrated adventuress Lola Montez brings him into conflict with the young Otto von Bismarck. Several years later Bismarck abducts him and forces him to impersonate a Danish prince whose marriage is expected to influence the politics of the fictional German duchy of Strackenz. Further fictional perspectives on Otto von Bismarck can be found in George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Tiger. For broader historical treatment of Otto von Bismarck, see Christopher Clark’s Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark’s Kaiser Wilhelm II, Christopher Clark’s Prisoners of Time, and Lawrence James’ Empires in the Sun.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Otto von Bismarck (3 series)

Morland Dynasty in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 36 books 4.4(27,265)

The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…

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Spangle in Order

by Gary Jennings 3 books 4.7(63)

Spangle follows Florian’s Flourishing Florilegium of Wonders from the devastated American South at the end of the Civil War to the courts, capitals and battlefields of Europe. Former Confederate colonel Zachary Edge and veteran Obie Yount join a struggling travelling circus whose performers become a surrogate family. As…

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2(80,547)

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Otto von Bismarck (8 books)

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