Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ..."Iron Kingdom" is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' - "Sunday Telegraph".

克里斯托弗·克拉克（Christopher Clark）,剑桥大学圣凯瑟琳学院现代欧洲史教授，著名历史学家，澳大利亚人文学院院士。曾于2007年英国历史学界殊荣“沃尔夫森历史奖”。2015年6月，因对英德关系研究做出了突出贡献，克拉克经英国外交大臣举荐，被授予爵士头衔。著有《梦游者》《钢铁帝国》等好评如潮的历史作品。