Blood and Iron

An excellent introduction to the German Empire. Hoyer balances the content of her book exceptionally well: politics, foreign policy, economics, culture, science, military matters; it's all there. The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 was various textual errors: poor capitalization (e.g. “Huns” was not capitalized), a few repetitive sentence structures, and other such typographical issues that should have been caught by the publisher. Hoyer wrote an exceptional book; the manuscript could use a little more editing though.