Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
by Christopher Clark
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Clark traces Prussia from a scattered Baltic territory to the militarized core of a unified Germany and finally to its dissolution by Allied decree in 1947. He argues against the familiar teleology that casts Prussia as the inevitable root of Nazism, presenting instead a contingent state whose Enlightenment reforms, religious pluralism, and bureaucratic innovation were as central to its identity as its armies.
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