In “Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe,” Ms. Chrastil, a historian at Xavier University, deftly uses Dietrich’s diary and other sources to enliven her ...

Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern ... It just had entirely inept plans for using any of these things. French units squandered time crisscrossing the country ...

Four weeks into the Franco-Prussian War, it proved to be the deadliest battle of the ... But while the German guns were battering Moscow Farm and Point du Jour, the French infantry at St Privat had ...

A French environmental group has found artillery shells dating back to World Wars I and II and even the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in a lake in eastern France. Water samples from Gerardmer in ...

referring to the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), which was partly waged on French soil, as well as the First and Second World Wars. Officials estimate that it could take 700 years to completely ...