TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Christopher M.
TI  - Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 
SN  - 9780674031968
AV  - DD389 .C53 2008
U1  - 943 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Prussia (Germany)
KW  - History
KW  - Germany
KW  - Prussia
KW  - fast
KW  - sears
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-761) and index; The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg -- Devastation -- An extraordinary light in Germany -- Majesty -- Protestants -- Powers in the land -- Struggle for mastery -- Dare to know! -- Hubris and nemesis : 1789-1806 -- The world the bureaucrats made -- A time of iron -- God's march through history -- Escalation -- Splendour and misery of the Prussian Revolution -- Four wars -- Merged into Germany -- Endings
N2  - Offers a history of the vanished state from its beginning as a group of territorial fragments to its rise to become one of the most powerful nations in Europe, detailing Prussia's influential and critical role in modern times and its dissolution by the Allies after World War II
ER  -