France entered the Franco Prussian War confident and unprepared. Prussia mobilized faster coordinated better and used diplomacy to isolate France while making it look like the aggressor. After early ...

France entered the Franco Prussian War confident and unprepared, while Prussia entered disciplined and ready. This episode follows Bismarck’s Ems Dispatch provocation and the rapid mobilization and ...

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 was “not a war of angels,” according to this fine-grained chronicle from historian Chrastil (How to Be Childless). In July 1870, France declared war on Prussia ...

‘Two brothers had left; only one returned,” writes Rachel Chrastil. The survivor was Dietrich von Lassberg, a 22-year-old subaltern in the Bavarian army. A year earlier he had exulted in his diary: ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Pride of Nations: The Franco-Prussian War 1870 This scenario covers the longest and bloodiest war in Europe during the 19th century. During this time, we ...