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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