The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. 3: Kovacs, Arpad F. "French Military Institutions before the Franco-Prussian War." The American Historical Review 51, no. 2 (1946): 217-35 ...
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 ...
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 ...