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!
Though the League of the Four Emperors had been established, primarily as a result of Bruno's actions in this life, some of its members were closer than others. For example, Germany and Russia were on exceptional terms at the moment.
Not only were the Kaiser, and the Tsar related, but ever since Bruno had single-handedly caused the Russian Revolution to occur and also saved the House of Romanov, as well as the entirety of the Russian Empire, from the Bolshevik menace, the Tsar had begun doing everything he could to get on the good side of Germany.
Currently, there were not only joint military exercises being held between the two countries, but there were also joint infrastructure projects being built. Not only were the railways being renovated and improved upon for the use of heavy armored trains, as well as the high-speed trains of the future, but even the road systems were being overhauled to facilitate transit via automobile traffic.