| Author | : Jenny Macleod |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2008-11-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
| Author | : Alfred Kelly |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2019-10-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783030070977 |
| Author | : Helmuth von Moltke |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2014-08-20 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781500896423 |
Helmuth von Moltke's The Franco German War of 1870-1871 is a comprehensive history of one of the 19th century's most influential wars, and the one that helped lead to the establishment of the modern state of Germany. It is written by one of the most important participants in the war, because von Moltke was a field marshal for the Prussians and a Chief of the General Staff.
| Author | : Geoffrey Wawro |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2003-08-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521584364 |
Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
| Author | : Helmuth Graf von Moltke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : George Chesney |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2022-11-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction. Written just after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War, it describes an invasion of Britain by a German-speaking country referred to in oblique terms as The Other Power or The Enemy. Excerpt: "You ask me to tell you, my grandchildren, something about my share in the great events that happened fifty years ago. 'Tis sad work turning back to that bitter page in our history, but you may perhaps take profit in your new homes from the lesson it teaches. For us, in England, it came too late. And yet we had plenty of warnings if we had only made use of them."
| Author | : Count Alfred Von Schlieffen |
| Publisher | : Naval & Military Press |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2018-06-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781783313952 |
All 101 tactical colour maps from Count Alfred Von Schlieffen's masterly treatise "CANNAE." All maps are full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects. This is a very impressive collection of maps that cover the battle of Cannae, the campaigns of Frederick the Great, and Napoleon, and the campaigns of 1866 and 1870-1.
| Author | : Donald Kladstrup |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2002-06-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0767913256 |
The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’Argent In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown–until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.
| Author | : Geoffrey Wawro |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521629515 |
This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Venetia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in July 1866. Although the book gives a thorough accounting of both the Prussian and Italian war efforts, it is most notable for the light it sheds on the Austrians. Through painstaking archival research, Wawro reconstructs the Austrian campaign, blow-by-blow, hour-by-hour. Blending military and social history, he describes the terror and panic that overtook Austria's regiments of the line in each clash with the Prussians. He reveals the unconscionable blundering of the Austrian commandant and his chief deputies who fumbled away key strategic advantages and ultimately lost a war - crucial to the fortunes of the Habsburg Monarchy - that most European pundits had predicted they would win.
