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 ...

In September 1870, not long after the start of the Franco-Prussian War, the city of Paris was under siege by Prussian soldiers. By the 19th, the German army had blocked all communication into or ...

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 was a dramatic event in both French and German history. In France it led to regime change and, some argue, created a thirst for revenge among some French ...

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.

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 was 5,000 miles away from Idaho, but it echoed in Boise and Idaho City, as Germans closely watched the war, and then celebrated. Some even went to Europe to fight.

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 ...