Wawro’s principal conclusions both deal with the relationship of the war to the First World War. At the highest levels, the Franco-Prussian War imposed a conservative, militaristic character to German ...

This takes up about a third of the book. Bassett-Powell then takes us back to 1806 ... to the rise of the fine instrument that gave Prussia primacy in Germany, success in the Franco-Prussian War, and ...

It all started with a letter to The Times. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870, Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay, a war veteran who had witnessed the suffering of soldiers in the ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...