In the previous episodes, we have seen the Great Elector construct the beginnings of both a Prussian state and Army. Through ...
Last week we have seen the Great Elector’s 48-year reign. It was marked by war and struggle, but it ensured the future ...
Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006), 800 pp., $35.00. RUDYARD KIPLING’s 1897 poem Recessional warned of the transience of ...