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 ...

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; ...

How does one make decisive decisions on major policy questions? According to Otto von Bismarck, the answer lies in his famous speech “ Blood and Iron”. The Prussian chancellor, who lived from 1815 to ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

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 ...