Iron Kingdom : T

Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ..."Iron Kingdom" is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely...

Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ..."Iron Kingdom" is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' - "Sunday Telegraph".

克里斯托弗·克拉克（Christopher Clark）,剑桥大学圣凯瑟琳学院现代欧洲史教授，著名历史学家，澳大利亚人文学院院士。曾于2007年英国历史学界殊荣“沃尔夫森历史奖”。2015年6月，因对英德关系研究做出了突出贡献，克拉克经英国外交大臣举荐，被授予爵士头衔。著有《梦游者》《钢铁帝国》等好评如潮的历史作品。