![]() ![]() Maps within the text clearly illustrate territorial changes, and each volume has 32 pages of carefully selected colour and black-and-white images – from paintings of Prussian royalty to political leaflets and vivid war photography. ![]() This two-volume Folio edition is beautifully presented and lavishly illustrated. In this masterful study, Christopher Clark argues for a more nuanced appraisal of the 350-year-old state that perished, unmourned, in the ashes of the Third Reich. ![]() For many Germans, ‘Prussia’ remains synonymous with everything repellent in German history: militarism, conquest, arrogance and illiberality.Īs Europe lay in ruins after the Second World War, Prussia abruptly ceased to exist – wiped off the map by the victorious Allies as the prime ‘bearer of militarism and reaction in Germany’. ![]()
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