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Historical person
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.
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. In George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Tiger, in The Road to Charing Cross he assists the journalist Henri Blowitz at the Congress of Berlin and later travels on the Orient Express, where Bismarck forces him into a plot involving the threatened assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph. Other novels featuring Otto von Bismarck include Gary Jennings’s Spangle: The Grand Promenade.
Series
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 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
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
