Theme-Park Prussia
David Blackbourn, 24 November 1994
Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea
by Giles MacDonogh.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 456 pp., £20, July 1994,1 85619 267 9 Show More
by Giles MacDonogh.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 456 pp., £20, July 1994,
“... These, the Prussian virtues and the Prussian vices, are also the themes of Giles MacDonogh’s book. He believes that the good outweighed the bad: the problem of modern German history lay in Prussian weakness, not strength, as the spartan virtues were lost in the grandeur of imperial Germany. The tone is affectionate and ... ”