Remember Prussia?(Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947)(Book review)

The National Interest | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006), 800 pp., $35.00.

RUDYARD KIPLING'S 1897 poem Recessional warned of the transience of greatness with the lines "all our pomp of yesterday/Is one with Nineveh and Tyre." While imperial de cline marks a recurring cycle, rarely have nations truly landed in history's graveyard. Many nations--partitioned like Poland or dominated by foreign empires for centuries like Serbia--eventually regained their independence. Prussia, however, met the fate of which ...

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