Germany's Historical Journey: Seven Must-Reads
Seven Essential Perspectives on Nationalism, Unification, Statecraft, and Cultural IdentityBy Moritz Busch, Ferdinand Schmidt, A. Walter, James Wycliffe Headlam, S. Miles Bouton, John Hubert Greusel, William Fiddian Reddaway
Length69h 47m
About this audiobook
Germany's Historical Journey: Seven Must-Reads assembles seven complementary inquiries into the forces that fashioned modern Germany: dynastic ambition, political unification, diplomacy, military power, and the contested meanings of national identity. Moving between memoir-like observation, historical analysis, political commentary, and biographical portraiture, the volume captures both the immediacy of events and their longer historical consequences. Its most compelling passages illuminate the tensions between Prussian statecraft, imperial aspiration, and the social currents that made Germany a decisive presence in European affairs. The contributors—Moritz Busch, Ferdinand Schmidt, A. Walter, James Wycliffe Headlam, S. Miles Bouton, John Hubert Greusel, and William Fiddian Reddaway—bring distinct national, professional, and interpretive vantage points to a shared subject. Together, their writings belong to the rich Anglo-German historiographical and documentary tradition through which nineteenth- and early twentieth-century readers interpreted Germany's rise. Their varied voices balance close engagement with political personalities and institutions against broader reflections on nationalism, power, and historical change. This collection is especially recommended for students and general readers seeking a compact, multifaceted introduction to Germany's path into modernity. Read comparatively, its selections reveal how divergent styles and assumptions can sharpen historical understanding, inviting productive dialogue between witness, commentator, and historian.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length69 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia
2PREFACE
3FREDERICK THE GREAT
4CHAPTER I THE RISE OF PRUSSIA
5CHAPTER II FREDERICK AS CROWN PRINCE, 1712–1740
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6CHAPTER III THE PROBLEM OF 1740
7CHAPTER IV THE SILESIAN ADVENTURE, 1740–1742
8CHAPTER V THE SECOND STRUGGLE FOR SILESIA, 1742–1745
9CHAPTER VI THE TEN YEARS’ PEACE, 1746–1756
10CHAPTER VII THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR TO THE BATTLE OF LEUTHEN
11CHAPTER VIII THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (continued) LEUTHEN TO MAXEN (DECEMBER, 1757, TO DECEMBER, 1759.)
12CHAPTER IX THE END OF THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (1760–1763)
13CHAPTER X FREDERICK AND PRUSSIA AFTER THE WAR
14CHAPTER XI FREDERICK AND EUROPE, 1763–1786
15CHAPTER XII FREDERICK’S DEATH AND GREATNESS
16The Story of the Nations.
17Heroes of the Nations.
18The Youth of the Great Elector
19Chapter I In the Elector’s Castle
20Chapter VII The Departure
21Chapter XVII In a Garden House at Berlin
22Appendix
23Bismarck
24PREFACE
25CHAPTER I
26CHAPTER II
27CHAPTER III
28CHAPTER IV
29CHAPTER V
30CHAPTER VI
31CHAPTER VII
32CHAPTER VIII
33CHAPTER IX
34CHAPTER X
35CHAPTER XI
36CHAPTER XII
37CHAPTER XIII
38CHAPTER XIV
39CHAPTER XV
40CHAPTER XVI
41CHAPTER XVII
42CHAPTER XVIII
43CHAPTER XIX
44Footnote
45Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
46PREFACE.
47ILLUSTRATIONS.
48BISMARCK.
49CHAPTER I
50CHAPTER II
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