The Holstein Papers: The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich Von Holstein 1837-1909

ISBN-13: 9780521179614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 250 str.

Friedrich Von Holstein; Norman Rich; M. H. Fisher

Opis

Friedrich von Holstein (1837 1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office. Since his death historians have combined to make him a monster of sinister and self-seeking policy. At various times von Holstein kept diaries, began memoirs, and wrote and received letters, and many of these survive. A selection of this Nachlass, which was first published in volume form between 1955 and 1963, is presented here. The original effect of this publication prompted an entire re-judgement of Bismarck, of German foreign policy at that time and since, and naturally of Holstein himself. The memoirs in this first volume were written in 1883, 1898 and 1906 1909. They include accounts of von Holstein's own career, essays on political subjects and personal impressions. There are fascinating sections on Bismarck, the Franco-Prussian war, and particularly the deterioration of German British relations. These memoirs were his most formal compositions of this kind."