The Pursuit of Power
Richard J. Evans
Penguin Publishing Group
<b>An <i>Economist </i>Best Book of the Year<br>"Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating."&#8212;Stephen Schuker, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br>From the bestselling author of <i>The Third Reich at War, a </i>masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series<br> </b><br> Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the period from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy, from the Russo-Turkish wars to the Balkan upheavals that brought this era of relative peace and growing prosperity to an end. Among the great...