EAN: 9780241419199

BISMARCKS WAR - RACHEL CHRASTIL GEBUNDEN

'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.

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