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Document Type: | Book |
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Michael Howard |
ISBN: | 0415266718 9780415266710 |
OCLC Number: | 47296298 |
Notes: | "First published in 1961 and now with a new introduction"--Page 4 of cover. |
Description: | xiv, 512 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The antagonists. The technical background ; The unreformed armies ; The reform of the Prussian army ; The reform of the French army -- The outbreak. The war plans ; The Hohenzollern candidature ; The German mobilisation ; The French mobilisation -- The first disasters. The concentration of the armies ; Spicheren ; Froeschwiller -- The Army of the Rhine. The invasion ; Vionville-Mars-la-Tour ; Gravelotte-St. Privat -- The Army of Châlons. Beaumont ; Sedan -- The government of national defence. Ferrières ; The nation in arms ; The francs-tireurs -- Metz and Strasbourg -- The battles for Orléans. Coulmiers ; Beaune-la-Rolande ; Loigny -- The siege of Paris. The investment ; Le plan Trochu ; Versailles ; The bombardment -- Guerre à outrance. The deepening conflict ; Chanzy ; Faidherbe ; The end in the West ; Bourbaki -- The peace. |
Responsibility: | Michael Howard. |
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