New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 327. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN:0-521-58436-1 An insightful account of one of perhaps the most critical European war of the ...

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 ...

The Citadelle, one of the mightiest fortresses of France, dominates the town of Bitche in eastern Lorraine. (Peter Jaeger / S&S) ...

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 ...

Franco-Prussian War of 1870 stirred nationalist passions in Idaho ... but the reliability of the news was doubted by some of our French residents and others whose sympathies were with the French.

Author David Wetzel talked about German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and French President Napoleon III, the two principals in the events that led to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. He discussed ...

In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, and a few others stayed ...

Michael Howard's account of the Franco-Prussian War, published in 1961, was so definitive that it seemed to deter others from telling the same story. Wawro has at last taken up the challenge, drawing ...