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Bismarck's War : The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBasic Books

ISBN-101541604091

ISBN-139781541604094

eBay Product ID (ePID)23058813040

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Book TitleBismarck's War : the Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / Germany, Europe / France, Military / General, Modern / 19th Century

Publication Year2023

GenreHistory

AuthorRachel Chrastil

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight26.1 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Reviews"Chrastil has clearly not written one of those increasingly common recent histories of war that seem to have no battles in them. She presents a skillful account of military mechanics. Still, where Chrastil shines is in providing a broader societal portrait of the conflict, particularly in France."-- Washington Examiner, "A brisk, invigoratingly intelligent read, full of the colorful personalities that governed the war but also full of the million anonymous civilian sufferers on French soil... Bismarck's War tells this grim story with superb narrative energy." -- Open Letters Review, "Engrossing narrative history that offers a great overview of the Franco-Prussian War and includes many well-selected and surprising details that have the potential to diversify and change perceptions of this important conflict even in readers who know the era well."-- Katja Hoyer, Engelsberg Ideas, "Rachel Chrastil colorfully describes how the Franco-Prussian War destroyed the long European peace established after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. Beginning as a midsummer cabinet war between monarchs, one of them Napoleon's nephew, Bismarck's invasion of France bogged down in winter rain and snow, and became a rancorous war of peoples that kindled the inferno of World War I." -- Geoffrey Wawro, author of The Franco-Prussian War and A Mad Catastrophe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal943.082

Synopsis"The best modern account" ( Wall Street Journal ) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck's War , historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full, while also showing in intimate detail how the war reshaped and blurred the boundaries between civilian and soldier as the fighting swept across France. The result is the definitive history of a transformative conflict that changed Europe, and the history of warfare, forever.