The Franco-Prussian War : the German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 / Geoffrey Wawro.
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many Eur...
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