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 ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

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 ...

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 ...