With two excellent studies of the 1870-1871 Franco-German War already available, Sir Michael Howard's venerable classic Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871, Revised Edition ...

It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on Prussia in July 1870 - primarily in an attempt to reassert its dominant position in ...

maps, notes, biblio., index ... both deal with the relationship of the war to the First World War. At the highest levels, the Franco-Prussian War imposed a conservative, militaristic character to ...