Prussia: Myth and Reality

by Edgar Feuchtwanger

As the author says, "Prussia has been cast both as the hero and the villain of German history....Much of mankind in the first World War thought the bad Prussians were leading the good Germans astray."

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Edgar Joseph Feuchtwanger is a German-British historian. born in Germany, as a boy Feuchtwanger escaped with his family to Britain prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. From 1944 to 1947, Edgar studied at Magdalene College in Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 1958. From 1959, he taught history at University of Southampton, until he retired in 1989.