BISMARCK: A LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B41188

English Summary/英文概要： This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Otto von Bismarck ’made’ Germany but never ’ruled’ it. For twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister without a party. He made speeches, brilliant in content but hesitant in delivery, and rarely addressed a public meeting. He planned three wars and after a certain stage in his career always wore military uniform to which he had no claim. The ’Iron Chancellor’, the image of Prussian militarism, suffered from hypochondria and hysteria. Contemporaries called him a ’dictator’ and several observers credited him with ’demonic’ powers’. They were not wrong. The sheer power of his remarkable ’sovereign sel’ awed even his enemies. William I observed that it was hard to be emperor under a man like Bismarck. He towered physically and intellectually over his contemporaries. His spoken and written prose sparkled with wit, insight, grand visions and petty malice. He united Germany and transformed Europe like Napoleon before and Hitler after him but with neither their control of the state nor command of great armies. He was and remained a royal servant. This new biography explores the greatness and limits of a huge and ultimately destructive self. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore the most remarkable figure of the nineteenth century, a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. A political genius who combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书所讲的正是历史上赫赫有名的铁血首相奥托·冯·俾斯麦(Otto Von Bismarck)，正是他于1862至1890年间重整欧洲又统一了德国。我们可以从他的秘书、老友、邻居、敌人和媒体眼中读出他的超能力。

他虽然创立了德国，但是从未统治过它。28年来，他只是一个无党派的首相。他演讲准备很好但是说的时候吞吞吐吐，所以他很少公开发言。他策划了三场战争，“铁血首相”不是空穴来风。后来他患上了忧郁症和癔症，当局叫他独裁者，不再信任他。但是他们都低估他了。威廉一世觉得他是个威胁。他文采出众，眼界宽阔，聪明睿智，战功赫赫。他在势单力薄的情况下，成功统一德国，成为继拿破仑和希特勒之后又一大奇迹。他是皇室守护者。这本自传以同僚日记和信函的方式向我们介绍了这位19世纪政坛的伟人趣事。(兼职翻译-XJJ)

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