BismarckAn accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germanys first chancellor. Otto von Bismarck (18151898) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany put Europe on a path of disaster leading up to World War I. But, as this new edition of his accessible biography shows, the real Bismarck was a far more complex character. A leading historian of nineteenth and twentieth century history,