The final collapse of East Prussia ended with the slow destruction of Königsberg once a symbol of Prussian power and German history. This episode examines the siege bombardment and surrender that ...

IT may safely be assumed that the early history of Prussia is known to the great majority of English readers only from the first four books of Carlyle’s Frederic the Great. So powerful was the ...

“Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia” by Max Egremont (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pages, $28) Try to imagine that you have just survived a terrible war, and now that the war ...

Welcome to the complete History of Prussia. Aside from the political and military history that stands central to this series, ...