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The Holstein Papers 4 Volume Paperback Set

The Holstein Papers 4 Volume Paperback Set

The Holstein Papers 4 Volume Paperback Set

The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich von Holstein
Friedrich von Holstein
Norman Rich
M. H. Fisher
April 2011
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    Friedrich von Holstein (1837–1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office, and later responsible for planning and directing German foreign policy though he never held a conspicuously high rank. In his retirement he remained active behind the scenes. Since his death historians, their imagination released by equal measures of prejudice and lack of information, have combined to make him a monster of sinister and self-seeking policy. At various times von Holstein kept diaries, at three others he began memoirs, during his whole life he wrote and received countless letters, and originals or copies of many of these survive. A selection of this Nachlass, which was first published in volume form between 1955 and 1963, is presented in this four-volume set. 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.

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    Table of Contents

    • Volume 1: Preface
    • Introduction
    • Acknowledgements
    • 1. St Petersburg, 1861–2
    • 2. The war against Denmark, 1964
    • 3. Preliminaries and outbreak of the Franco Prussian War, 1867–70
    • 4. The conclusion of peace, 1871
    • 5. Radowitz
    • 6. The Franco–German rapprochement
    • 7. Bismarck's Russian policy
    • 8. Bismarck and Wilhelm II
    • 9. The background of Anglo–German hostility. Germany's Bosnian policy
    • 10. Wilhelm II and Foreign Policy
    • 11. The Kaiser's relations to politics and to the chancellor
    • Appendices
    • Index. Volume 2: Preface
    • Introduction
    • Diaries:
    • 1. 1881, 1882
    • 2. 1883
    • 3. 1884
    • 4. 1885
    • 5. 1886
    • 6. 1887
    • 7. 1888
    • Appendices
    • Index. Volume 3: Introduction
    • Part I. Correspondence:
    • 1. 1861
    • 2. 1868
    • 3. 1869
    • 4. 1871
    • 5. 1874
    • 6. 1876–7
    • 7. 1878–9
    • 8. 1880
    • 9. 1881
    • 10. 1882
    • 11. 1883
    • 12. 1884
    • 13. 1885
    • 14. 1886
    • 15. 1887
    • 16. 1888
    • 17. 1889
    • 18. 1890
    • 19. 1891
    • 20. 1892
    • 21. 1893
    • 22. 1894
    • 23. 1895
    • 24. 1896. Volume 4: Part II. Correspondence:
    • 25. 1897
    • 26. 1898
    • 27. 1899
    • 28. 1900
    • 29. 1901
    • 30. 1902
    • 31. 1903
    • 32. 1904
    • 33. 1905
    • 34. 1906
    • 35. 1907
    • 36. 1908
    • 37. 1909
    • Index to correspondence 1861–1909 (two volumes).
      Author
    • Friedrich von Holstein
    • Editors
    • Norman Rich
    • M. H. Fisher