The Iron Chancellor’s Guide to Avoiding World War III
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Otto von Bismarck is counted among the most effective statesmen of the 19th century — or, for that matter, any century. As minister-president and foreign minister of Prussia, he used diplomacy and war in the 1860s and early 1870s (against Denmark, Austria, then France) to create the German Empire. As chancellor of Germany, he orchestrated a balance of power in Europe that maintained great power peace until, in the wake of his retirement, it was shattered by the First World War. He approached for
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