Historian Hoyer debuts with an accessible if abbreviated chronicle of Germany’s Second Reich focused on its two most important leaders. Statesman Otto von Bismarck rode the “intoxicating wave of ...

The Iron Cross is one of the most widely recognised military decorations throughout the world. The story behind its origins ...

9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

On The German Empire, 1871–1918, by Roger Chickering. Although he is too modest to claim the honor for himself, Roger Chickering is in many ways the dean of American scholars of modern German history.