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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

bartlettje's review

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5.0

This niche period of interests me, but I was expecting quite a difficult read. However, it’s excellently written and engaging.

sam_mehdi's review

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4.0

An excellent introduction to the German Empire. Hoyer balances the content of her book exceptionally well: politics, foreign policy, economics, culture, science, military matters; it's all there. The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 was various textual errors: poor capitalization (e.g. "Huns" was not capitalized), a few repetitive sentence structures, and other such typographical issues that should have been caught by the publisher. Hoyer wrote an exceptional book; the manuscript could use a little more editing though.

oliviaparsons32's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

3.0

tb23's review against another edition

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informative fast-paced

3.5

histories2024's review against another edition

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Bad narrator with distracting pronunciation of German names and terms.

steadi7's review

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informative medium-paced

3.25

welshrebel1776's review against another edition

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emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

3.5

pdfguy's review

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1.5

Just not very good. Whig history at its most surface level and asinine. 

bedeh's review

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informative fast-paced

4.25

milloola's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.5