Geoffrey Wawro

The Franco-Prussian War

The German Conquest of France in 1870 1871

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Produktbeschreibung

Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 71, that violently changed the course of European history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521617437
• ISBN-10: 052161743X
• Artikelnr.: 21560734

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Wawro is Professor of Strategic Studies at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. His previously published books include The Austro-Prussian War (Cambridge, 1996) and Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 (2000). He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Austrian Cultural Institute Prize and the Society for Military History Moncado Prize for Excellence in the Writing of Military History. In 2002, he shared a New Orleans Press Club Award for the live NBC/History Channel coverage of the parade and opening of the D-Day Museum Pacific Wing. He is also the host and anchor of the History Channel's Hardcover History, a weekly interview show with leading historians, statesmen, and journalists.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Causes of the Franco-Prussian War
2. The armies in 1870
3. Mobilization for war
4. Wissembourg and Spicheren
5. Froeschwiller
6. Mars-la-Tour
7. Gravelotte
8. The road to Sedan
9. Sedan
10. France on the brink
11. France falls
12. The peace.