Geoffrey Wawro, "The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 052161743X | edition 2005 | PDF | 342 pages | 8,18 mb
The brief, seldom-sung but crucial Franco-Prussian war gets its due in this superb history. Military historian Wawro gives a comprehensive and lucid account of the political and diplomatic dimensions of the war, which redrew Europe's map and announced the arrival of the German Empire as a world power, but his emphasis is on the conflict as an omen of the future of warfare.