Otto von Bismark was a titan of Europe, but Katja Hoyer gives an intimate account of the man behind the statesman.
‘Please just let me see my Johanna again’ – those were the whispered last words of the once towering figure of Otto von Bismarck, breathed out as he lay on his death bed on 30 July 1898. He had spent a lifetime building up a reputation as a tenacious politician with a...