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Author : George Hooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Campaign of Sedan, August-September, 1870 written by George Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George W. A. Fitz-George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857066978
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Two Accounts of the Battle of Sedan, 1st September 1870 written by George W. A. Fitz-George and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two accounts of the battle of Sedan in 1870 have been combined for good value to enable readers to gain a balanced overview of the action from different perspectives. What makes these accounts particularly interesting is that they were written not only by authors who were able to view the events without the impediment of national bias, but because both were present on the field of battle itself. So this excellent book offers the reader a history, an analysis, first-hand eyewitness accounts, the accounts and views of other witnesses and participants and a number of anecdotes including those concerning General Sheridan. This most significant of battles of the Franco-Prussian War came about as the numerically superior French Army under MacMahon attempted to relieve the siege of Metz. That attempt failed as the French were defeated at Beaumont. Moltke, Bismarck and the king, Wilhelm I, subsequently cornered the French at Sedan and surrounded them. The Emperor, Napoleon III, was with the French forces and, unable to escape, suffered the humiliation of both defeat and personal capture. This battle typified the pattern of the Franco-Prussian War which, following the lessons of the American Civil War, took armed conflict on its first steps into the industrial age. All of those lessons had been learnt by the Prussians and very few of them by the French, whose view of warfare and especially of the Prussians remained, to their cost, rooted in the experiences of another Napoleon and entirely different French and Prussian Armies in the days of the First Empire. Times had changed--the French had been out-planned, out-organised, out-manoeuvred and out-gunned. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Author : Douglas Fermer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844685683
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Sedan 1870 written by Douglas Fermer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian analyzes the Franco-Prussian War’s Battle of Sedan, from its causes and effects, to the characters involved. The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event in that war. For the Germans, their overwhelming victory symbolized the birth of their nation, forged in steel and tempered in the blood of the common enemy. For the French, it was a defeat more complete and humiliating than Waterloo. Author Douglas Fermer’s fresh study of this traumatic moment in European history reconsiders how the mutual fear and insecurity of two rival nations tempted their governments to seek a solution to domestic tensions by waging war against each other. His compelling narrative shows how war came about, and how the dramatic campaign of summer 1870 culminated in a momentous clash of arms at Sedan. He gives fascinating insights into the personalities and aims of the politicians and generals involved but also spotlights the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians. Praise for Sedan 1870 “Fermer is an eminently readable author and his books well worth the investment. Sedan 1870, is an excellent study in hubris and hunger, doctrine and professionalism and the underlying motivation that drives troops, regardless of the quality of their leadership, to astonishing levels of self-sacrifice.” —Chris Buckham, The Military Reviewer
Author : Maarten Otte
Publisher : Battleground Books: Pre WWI
ISBN 13 : 9781526744128
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 written by Maarten Otte and published by Battleground Books: Pre WWI. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied German states that was to be a complete disaster. For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and the Army of of Chalons, it meant his abdication and exile. For France it resulted in the humiliation of her army, a bitter civil war in Paris, the loss of two Provinces (Alsace and Lorraine) and a heavy indemnity.Maarten Otte provides background chapters to place the lead up to the war and the issues that were involved; he describes the make up of the opposing armies and some of their principal commanders.The campaign around Sedan was short, fought in the fag end days of August and early September 1870, though the war was to drag on for four months. The Sedan Campaign was fought over a relatively small area and the locations of some of the key battles have changed little, though some of those near the built up areas, such as Sedan itself, require some imagination.After the war several German regiments erected monuments and a surprising number remain today, often hidden away in isolated fields and copses. Several communal cemeteries have a number of German graves. Perhaps one of the most macabre of these is the ossuary in Bazeilles, where the visitor is able to see skeletons that still have shreds of uniform and footwear on them.A notable feature of this battlefield is to see memorials to the conflicts of the twentieth century - the Great War and the Second World War - Sedan was a focus of the most recent and most bloody western European wars.
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134972199
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Franco-Prussian War written by Michael Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1870 Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the Continent but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might, evoking general admiration and imitation, introduced an era of power politics, which was to reach its disastrous climax in 1914. First published in 1961 and now with a new introduction, The Franco-Prussian War is acknowledged as the definitive history of one of the most dramatic and decisive conflicts in the history of Europe.
Author : Emile Zola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198801890
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book La Debacle written by Emile Zola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Author : George Hooper
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465615911
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 written by George Hooper and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Fermer
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844689042
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book France at Bay, 1870–1871 written by Douglas Fermer and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing months, and resolved itself into a contest for Paris—for while Paris held out, France was undefeated. The story of this dramatic final phase of the war is the subject of Douglas Fermers masterly account, the sequel to his Sedan 1870. He weaves this story of military victory and defeat into a gripping narrative and it sets the extraordinary events of nearly 150 years ago in the wider context of European history.
Author : Quintin Barry
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781874622697
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Franco-Prussian War 1870-71, Volume 2 written by Quintin Barry and published by Helion. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the second part of the comprehensive two-volume military history of the Franco-Prussian War. This work includes narrative from the fall of the Second Empire until the ending of the war, and the founding of a unified Germany. The text is accompanied by a number of black and white illustrations and battle maps.
Author : Geoffrey Wawro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521584364
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)
Download or read book The Franco-Prussian War written by Geoffrey Wawro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Civil War in France written by Karl Marx and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War in France is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx. It presents a convincing declaration of the General Council of the International, pertaining to the character and importance of the struggle of the Communards in the Paris Commune at the time.
Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Franco-German War of 1870-71 written by Helmuth Graf von Moltke and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Shann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782002316
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book French Army 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War (1) written by Stephen Shann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of the Second Empire, under Napoleon III, the French army, elevated from tactful obscurity, was re-modelled on Napoleonic lines. This army first fought in the Crimea, and then against Austria. Later, In Mexico, they had a disastrous adventure while in Europe Prussia was fast emerging as a challenge to France's military pre-eminence. Together with Austria, Bismarck first crushed Denmark before turning on Austria herself. The victory at Sadowa in 1866 stunned Europe, and in Paris Napoleon and his advisers set to thinking of a way to counter this new threat. In this first of two volumes looking at the French Army of the Franco-Prussian War, Stephen Shann and Louis Delperier examine the history, organisation and weapons of the French Imperial troops.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Michigan State Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Michigan Library Bulletin written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Michigan State Library written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : London, G. Bell & sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English Letters and Letterwriters of the Eighteenth Century written by Howard Williams and published by London, G. Bell & sons. This book was released on 1886 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
