Blood and Iron - Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its - Founder, Bismarck

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Blood and Iron, by John Hubert Greusel This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck Author: John Hubert Greusel Release Date: July 21, 2009 [EBook #29473] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLOOD AND IRON *** Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BLOOD and IRON Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck BY JOHN HUBERT GREUSEL THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS 114-116 E. 28th St. New York 1915 Copyright, 1915, John Hubert Greusel Dedicated to Stella My Wife CONTENTS [5]BOOK THE FIRST: BISMARCK’S HUMAN ESSENCE Chapter I—The Man Himself 1. The Giant’s Ponderous Hammer 2. Grossly Human Is Our Bismarck 3. Despite Political Bogs 4. Genius Combined with Foibles Chapter II—Blood Will Tell 5. Iron-headed Ancestry 6. Animal Basis of Rise to Power 7. “The Wooden Donkey Dies Today!” Chapter III—The Gothic Cradle 8. The Child of Destiny 9.