With two excellent studies of the 1870-1871 Franco-German War already available, Sir Michael Howard's venerable classic Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871, Revised Edition ...

Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear ...

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Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the ...

whose military strategy won him high honors in the Franco-Prussian War, credited his success to Kriegsspiel: “The ability to ...

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But that future was shattered when France and Prussia went to war. The Prussian army beseiged Paris. As Paris starved, Geneviève wrote. A record of how one woman's hopes and dreams are forever changed ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

It all started with a letter to The Times. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870, Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay, a war veteran who had witnessed the suffering of soldiers in the ...

During the war of 1870–1 renowned scientists would confront each other in acrimonious debates revealing dregs of resentments and distrust that would never be absorbed completely, the oncoming upswing ...

But the very analogy between the Franco-Prussian War and the present War is superficial and misleading in the extreme. Let us set aside all the international relations. Let us forget that the War ...

Franco Ordoñez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic ...