Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seeing Europe With Famous Authors, Vol. 5 of 10: Selected and Edited With Introductions, Etc;; Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part One
The tangled and attenuated thread of German history from Charlemagne's time until now can not be unfolded here, but it makes one of. The great chronicles in human history, with its Con rads and Henrys, its Maximilian, its Barbarossa, ' its Charles V., its Thirty Years' War, its great Frederick of Prussia, its struggle with Napoleon, its rise through Prussia under Bismarck, its war of 1870 with France, its new Empire, different alike in structure and in reality from the one called Holy and called Roman, and the wonderful commercial and industrial progress of our century.
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