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

informative fast-paced

3.75

Does a great job summarizing the time period in question, but to achieve its condensed pace it assumes the reader has broad familiarity with the course of 19th-20th century European political history. This really is a narrow history of Germany, vs. using Germany to tell a broader European story.