Franco Prussian War 1870 1871 Volume 1
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Author | : Michael Howard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2005-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134972199 |
In 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 | : Geoffrey Wawro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521584364 |
Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
Author | : Léonce Patry |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780304359134 |
The 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 |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300084072 |
En 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 | : Stephen Badsey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472851358 |
Illustrated 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 | : Rachel Chrastil |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807138126 |
By the end of the Franco-Prussian War (1870--71), Germany occupied one-third of French territory, thousands of Alsatians and Lorrainers had flooded into France, and 140,000 French soldiers had died. France's crushing defeat in the most significant European armed conflict between the Napoleonic wars and World War I cast long shadows over military garrisons, meeting halls, and kitchen tables throughout the nation. Until now, no study has adequately addressed the complex, lasting effects of the war on the lives of ordinary French men and women. In this stimulating new book, Rachel Chrastil provides a lively history of French provincial citizens after the Franco-Prussian War as they came to terms with defeat and began to prepare themselves for a seemingly inevitable future conflict. Chrastil provides the first examination of the problems facing provincial France following the war and the negotiations between the state and citizen organizations over the best ways to resolve these issues. She also reinterprets postwar commemorative practices as an aspect of civil society, rather than as an issue of collective memory. By the 1880s, Chrastil shows, the Franco-Prussian War had receded far enough into the past for French citizens to reassess their roles during the war and reorient themselves toward the future. Believing that they had failed in their duties during the Franco-Prussian War, many French men and women argued that citizens could and should take responsibility for the nation's war effort, even before hostilities began. To this end, they joined the Red Cross, gymnastics clubs, and commemorative organizations like the Souvenir Français, especially in areas of the country that had faced occupation and that anticipated future invasion. Using extensive archival and published sources, Chrastil deftly traces the evolution of these private or semiprivate associations and the ways in which those associations affected the relationship of citizens with the French state. Through a novel interpretation of these civilian groups, Chrastil asserts that the associations encouraged French citizens to accept and even to prolong World War I.
Author | : Quintin Barry |
Publisher | : Helion |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781874622697 |
Features 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 | : Emile Zola |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0198801890 |
La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Author | : Helmuth Graf von Moltke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
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Author | : Stephen Shann |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782002316 |
At the time of the Second Empire, under Napoleon III, the French army, elevated from tactful obscurity, was re-modelled on Napoleonic lines. This army first fought in the Crimea, and then against Austria. Later, In Mexico, they had a disastrous adventure while in Europe Prussia was fast emerging as a challenge to France's military pre-eminence. Together with Austria, Bismarck first crushed Denmark before turning on Austria herself. The victory at Sadowa in 1866 stunned Europe, and in Paris Napoleon and his advisers set to thinking of a way to counter this new threat. In this first of two volumes looking at the French Army of the Franco-Prussian War, Stephen Shann and Louis Delperier examine the history, organisation and weapons of the French Imperial troops.