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 had more luxuries than the men beneath his command. He was the highest rank a man could achieve in the German Army. Travelling from the front lines back to Berlin was not only a matter of personal luxury, but often times necessity.
As Montenegro, and Serbia both capitulated, and the troops which Bruno was in charge of largely began Gendarme operations while also simultaneously preparing for a war in a new theater. Bruno found himself with little to actually do. In fact, his expertise was actually needed back in the fatherland, checking to see if the preparations he had made in years past had finally been concluded.
For the most part, Bruno's involvement in creating military designs, taken, modified, and improved from his past life had been focused on the Army, as that was more or less the single most important part of the Great War, and was also his primary means of production.