Iron and Blood

Resumen del libro

Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development to recruitment to battlefield strategy. Germans' military impact on the rest of Europe has been immense.

If there is one constant it has been the sense of being beset by seemingly more powerful enemies - France or Russia or Turkey - and the need to strike a rapid knockout blow to ensure a favourable result. Almost inevitably, this has in practice meant protracted, relentless and often unwinnable wars, and - in 1939-1945 - moral catastrophe. The author of definitive books on the Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years War, Peter Wilson has with Iron and Blood written his masterpiece.

Biografía del autor

Peter H. Wilson ocupa el puesto de Chichele Professor de Historia de la Guerra en el All Souls College de la Universidad de Oxford, lo que le convierte en la máxima autoridad académica en historia militar del Reino Unido. Especialista en historia de la guerra e historia de Alemania, es autor de multipremiadas obras de referencia como "El Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico. Mil años de historia de Europa" y de "La Guerra de los Treinta Años. Una Tragedia Europea".