EAN: 9780141991610

BISMARCKS WAR - RACHEL CHRASTIL TASCHENBUCH

'Superb on the human consequences of war  ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The
Times 'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph 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.

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