I: Family and Descent; II: School Years; III: Student Days; IV: Civil Servant; V: Bismarck as Landowner; VI: His Engagement; VII: From Engagement to Marriage; VIII: Bismarck as Member of Parliament; IX: The Revolution of 1848; X: The Way to Olmütz; XI: Ambassador to the Federal Diet; XII: The Crimean War; XIII: The Change of Government in Prussia; XIV: The Struggle for the Premiership; XV: The Government without a Budget; XVI: Towards the Danish Conflict; XVII: Austro-Prussian Friendship; XVIII: Preparation for War Against Austria; XIX: Nikolsburg; XX: The Foundation of the North German Confederacy; XXI: The Working of the North German Confederacy; XXII: The Franco-Prussian War; XXIII: The New Reich