France entered the Franco-Prussian War confident and unprepared — Prussia entered disciplined and ready. This video explores how Otto von Bismarck’s manipulation of the Ems Dispatch provoked France ...

The Second Schleswig War of 1864 was a pivotal conflict that ignited the flames of unity and reshaped Europe's destiny.

THIS book is a fine illustration of what may be termed the high toryism of biography ; for it would be hard to come upon a chronicle in this age which so accepts and conserves every fact as the best ...

On Sept. 30, 1862, the recently appointed minister president of the Kingdom of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, held a speech that gave a taste of things to come: “The position of Prussia in Germany will ...

THE seeds of birth lie so mysteriously hidden in death that historians are still disputing whether the French Revolution and Napoleon’s régime mark the close of one epoch, or the beginning of another; ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Otto von Bismarck was born, Germans are still struggling with the legacy of their first leader: was he a war-mongering villain, or a benevolent hero who ...