Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
Bruno quickly absconded from the spotlight and instead began searching for the Prussian Princess who by now was a full-fledged adult. Time had of course passed far quicker than Bruno could have ever realistically imagined when he was first reincarnated into this world.
The first time he had ever given the young woman any thought during this new lease on life was when Bruno was a mere fifteen years old.
He stood up for his then fiancee's honor at the Princess's second birthday in 1894. Eighteen years had come and gone since then, and in September of the current year of 1912 the young lady would turn twenty.
It was only a year before she would marry the man she was supposed to be with in life, which was Earnest August a man who was currently the heir to the Duchy of Brunswick. And yet Bruno had heard no mention of her engagement to the man.