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.
In AD843, Charlemagne’s grandsons divided his empire like mafia bosses parcelling out territory. Louis received the land we were to later call Germany. A large part of it had been in the Roman empire, ...
The flag of Europe still has twelve stars on it, and organizations with names like Eurogroup and European Commission and European Council still persist. But despite the unfortunate historical ...