Spear of Longinus And The Reich: Blood, Iron, and the Relic That Governed the Fate of Empires

What drives the collapse of an empire: the cold calculation of economic collapse, or the volatile combustion of a weaponized myth? For centuries, conventional textbooks have insisted that the maps of Europe were carved solely by the movements of massive infantries and the industrial output of coal and iron. They present history as a series of sterile statistics and logical progressions. Yet, benea...