Im Kaiserreich

After "This Side of the Wall," the new bestseller by Katja Hoyer. Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation, but merely an idea. Otto von Bismarck faced a monumental task. How was he to bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single emperor? Could the young European state, after its unification, wield enough power to compete with the empires of Great Britain and France—without destroying itself in the process? In a unique narrative spanning five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its fateful end. A book that brilliantly brings history to life.