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 ...

Discover how Prussia decisively defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War, a short but pivotal conflict that reshaped European power and led to the unification of Germany. This concise breakdown ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was ...

SEPTEMBER 2 1ST, 1870: Modern war reporting is usually ... Twenty years later, the Franco-Prussian War dominated the pages ofThe Irish Times as German forces encircled Paris and eventually starved ...

weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and the Commune’s ...

A year earlier he had exulted in his diary: “War! War with France!” The brother who died was Rudolf, shot in the head in a battle outside Orléans in November 1870. On Christmas Eve ...

The existence of the Franco-Prussian war raises the question, what is to be the effect of that dispute upon the supply and the prices asked for the French and German wines which have hitherto been ...