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!
Of Bruno's eight brothers, all had served in the military at some point in their lives. Though none other than Bruno had actually taken part in combat operations, that is, until the Russian Civil War where the three youngest siblings of the family fought together in Ingria and Volga.
As for the three oldest brothers, Franz, Christoph, and Maximilian, they had all had very brief military careers, serving the minimum years on their contract upon becoming Commissioned Officers before exiting from the service altogether and instead pursuing careers in the private sector.
Of the nine children that Bruno's father and mother had brought into this world, only one of them had ever served in the Kaiserliche Marine. The rest were all army brats through and through. This brother was named Wolfgang, and he was the fourth youngest of his siblings.