ISBN13: | 9780241419199 |
ISBN10: | 02414191911 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 512 pages |
Size: | 240x162x35 mm |
Weight: | 897 g |
Language: | English |
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History in general, methods
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age
Cultural history
History of Europe
Further readings in History
Military theory
History in general, methods (charity campaign)
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign)
Cultural history (charity campaign)
History of Europe (charity campaign)
Further readings in History (charity campaign)
Military theory (charity campaign)
Bismarck's War
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'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph
'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times
'Fresh and compelling ... a tour-de-force' David A. Bell
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further French resistance, a new German Empire was proclaimed (as a deliberate humiliation) in the Palace of Versailles, leaving the French to face civil war in Paris, reparations and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.
Bismarck's War tells the story of one of the most shocking reversals of fortune in modern European history. The culmination of a globally violent decade, the Franco-Prussian War was deliberately engineered by Bismarck, both to destroy French power and to unite Germany. It could not have worked better, but it also had lurking inside it the poisonous seeds of all the disasters that would ravage the twentieth century.
Drawing on a remarkable variety of sources, Chrastil's book explores the military, technological, political and social events of the war, its human cost and the way that the sheer ferocity of war, however successful, has profound consequences for both victors and victims.