Abstract
The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, leader of rising German Empire based on Prussian militarism and discipline, and Lord Odo Russell, Britain's Liberal Ambassador when her empire was at its most powerful, serene and confident, were politically and socially worlds apart. Their remarkable friendship, which is examined in this volume, endured intense national rivalry which would change face of Europe and world, and end in world war. The author sets out to illustrate major themes of relationship between Bismarck and Russell: Franco-Prussian war; Turkey as the sick man of Europe, and Eastern Question; relations with France, Russia and other European powers; beginnings of imperial rivalry; and clash of ideologies between liberal Anglo-Saxon beliefs and militarism of new Germany. Emerging from text is a picture of German Imperial court and of British political society at its highest.
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