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This heavy book covers German history from its beginnings up until the Weimar Republic (ending with the chapter on the "New Empire" and Reich President Paul von Hindenburg). The book begins with the ancient Germanic tribes, the Romans, and the Battle of the Huns.
This specific edition features a curated selection of magnificent historical art plates. Included are striking depictions such as Hermann the Cheruscan at the Battle of Idistaviso, the Coronation of Charlemagne, the Battle of Lechfeld, Emperor Charles V at the Fuggers, the Great Elector before the Battle of Fehrbellin, the heroic death of the Schill officers, the Congress of Vienna, Bismarck and Napoleon's meeting at Donchéry, the Congress of Berlin, and the solemn opening of the German Reichstag by Emperor Wilhelm II, among others.
Further content encompasses the comprehensive development of German history: the Franks, Canossa, Frederick I. Barbarossa, the Crusades, Rudolf of Habsburg, Louis the Bavarian, the Hussites, the Burgraves of Nuremberg, the origins and the end of the Hanseatic League, the Peasants' War, the Renaissance, Martin Luther, Albrecht Dürer, the Counter-Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the First and Second Silesian War, the Seven Years' War, Immanuel Kant, Goethe and Schiller, Prussia during the French Revolution, Queen Louise, the Spring Campaign of 1813, the Campaign of 1814, Bismarck's beginnings, King William I., the German-Danish War of 1864, the War of 1866, the War against France in 1870/71, the foundation of the German Empire, the kings of Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg, Wilhelm I as German Emperor, Emperor Frederick III, the German Empire from 1888-1914, and the German Empire during World War I.
This is a very RARE and expensive Book!!!!
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