In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the wars with revolutionary France and annexations by Napoleon reshaped the German lands.

Photo: "Blucher the Brave Extracting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Blood Hound", April 9, 1814. Artist Thomas Rowlandson. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)