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Author: Quintin Barry
Publisher: Helion
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9781874622697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures the second part of the comprehensive two-volume military history of the Franco-Prussian War. This work includes narrative from the fall of the Second Empire until the ending of the war, and the founding of a unified Germany. The text is accompanied by a number of black and white illustrations and battle maps.
Author: Michael Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-12-09
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1134972199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1870 Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the Continent but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might, evoking general admiration and imitation, introduced an era of power politics, which was to reach its disastrous climax in 1914. First published in 1961 and now with a new introduction, The Franco-Prussian War is acknowledged as the definitive history of one of the most dramatic and decisive conflicts in the history of Europe.
Author: Stephen Badsey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-01-20
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1472851358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated with colour maps and images, this is an introduction to the Franco-Prussian War, a war that marked the beginning of the creation of modern Europe. The Franco-Prussian War started in 1870 when Otto von Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III, as part of his plan to unite Prussia with the southern German states as a new Germany. Stephen Badsey examines the build-up, battles, and impact of the war, which was an overwhelming Prussian victory with massive consequences. The French Second Empire collapsed, Napoleon III became an exile in Britain, and King Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the new united Germany. In the peace settlement that followed, Germany gained the eastern French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, areas that were to provide a bone of contention for years to come. Updated for the new edition with revisions from the author and new images throughout, this is an accessible introduction to the largest and most important war fought in Europe between the age of Napoleon and the First World War.
Author: Quintin Barry
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Published: 2007
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ISBN-13: 9781874622642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Wawro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-08-25
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521584364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
Author: Léonce Patry
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780304359134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long and sombre chronicle of the Franco-Prussian war is an episode that deserves further attention. English-speaking readers have very little sense of what the war was like for its participants. Based on his own experiences, Patry vividly describes the bloodshed and appalling atrocities committed during the army advance to retake the Paris commune. He is also deeply critical of the shortcomings and follies of the high command. An elegant translation of a compelling text, written by a man of obvious charm and honesty, and equally obvious faults, this book is a joy to read. It ranks as one of the best examples of war memoirs written in any language.
Author: John Milner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0300084072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEn beskrivelse af franske kunstneres opfattelse af Frankrigs krig mod Preussen, Pariserkommunen og den nye franske republik, som det kommer til udtryk i deres kunst
Author: Michael Solka
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2004-08-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781841767543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe crushing victory by Prussia and her German allies in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–71, destroyed one empire and created another. It finally unified the German states into an empire under Prussian leadership – an empire proclaimed in the very halls of captured Versailles. In 1870 Prussia's reformed mobilization system put enormous armies into the field with unprecedented efficiency. The confidence which the victory encouraged among German militarists, and the intolerable humiliation it inflicted upon France, ensured that an even more destructive war was soon inevitable. This, the first of two titles, lists and illustrates the units of Prussia and her North German Confederation, the powerhouse of a formidable military machine.
Author: David Wetzel
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780299174941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history.
Author: David Wetzel
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0299291332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn July 19, 1870, Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war against the Prussia of King William I and Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. This book depicts the world in which that war took place. In this study of the diplomatic history of the Franco-Prussian War, the author draws extensively on private and official records, journalistic accounts, cabinet minutes, and public statements by key players to produce a book that is unmatched in the range and clarity of its analysis, its characterizations, and its vivid language. -- Description from book cover.
