Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman other biographies of Bismarck that are more detailed, "as a perceptive psychological sketch of this massively complex being, Mr. Taylor's "Bismarck" stands unsurpassed". A German edition was not published until 1962, and it was not much noticed there. However German historian Wolfgang Mommsen later said that Taylor's biography was better than any German synthesis. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman is a biography of the German statesman Otto von Bismarck by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in June 1955. In a
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