Of the Great Powers that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished. This book presents the history of Prussia.

It's the beginning of the 18th century, and Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis is called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced Konigsberg to a state of terror. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killings. When the killer tries to murder him, Hanno finds himself confronted by the demons of his own past.

The Franco-Prussian war remains one of the most dramatic conflicts in nineteenth century European history. Now reissued with a new introduction by the author, this book is acknowledged as the definitive history of the conflict.

Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, the secret returns to haunt her.

In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic story, and H. W. Koch fills a major gap in English-language literature with this comprehensive account. It traces the origins and rise of the ...

Set in the last few months of the Second World War, one of the most brutal periods in human history, this is an extraordinarily powerful and moving story of a terrified German family on the run from the advancing Russian army.

Naomi Novik's stunning series of novels follow the adventures of Cpt Laurence and his dragon Temeraire as they travel from the shores of Britain to China and Africa.

The life of Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.

Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71, that violently changed the course of European history.

For more than half a century Austria and Prussia struggled for supremacy over the German lands. In this survey of an important period in European history, John Breuilly examines the influences and events that resulted in the formation of the German nation state under Prussion dominance.

Three children are massacred in their beds. The corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Then the husband is killed while out on field manoeuvres. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, seeking to discover how the crime was committed. But only Hanno's wife, knows what happened in that cottage.

As well as telling the full story of Waterloo and Blucher's part in it, this book details a career which spanned the entire Napoleonic era. No other general clashed so many times with Bonaparte, and Blucher's life epitomizes the excitement and horror of this period.

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War and outfought the formidable French, Russian and German armies. This volume presents a selection from his writings on: strategy, tactics, and mobility; the problems of logistics; generalship as an art; and more.

New history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification.

The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. This study of the Siege and its aftermath looks at the high drama of those ten fantastic months and the spiritual agony which Paris and the Parisians suffered.

This is the first full-length biography of Immanuel Kant in more than fifty years.