Author: Jenny Macleod
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Defeat and Memory
Author: Jenny Macleod
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War
Author: Alfred Kelly
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9783030070977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9783030070977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Franco German War Of 1870-1871
Author: Helmuth von Moltke
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500896423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Helmuth von Moltke's The Franco German War of 1870-1871 is a comprehensive history of one of the 19th century's most influential wars, and the one that helped lead to the establishment of the modern state of Germany. It is written by one of the most important participants in the war, because von Moltke was a field marshal for the Prussians and a Chief of the General Staff.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500896423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Helmuth von Moltke's The Franco German War of 1870-1871 is a comprehensive history of one of the 19th century's most influential wars, and the one that helped lead to the establishment of the modern state of Germany. It is written by one of the most important participants in the war, because von Moltke was a field marshal for the Prussians and a Chief of the General Staff.
The Franco-Prussian War
Author: Geoffrey Wawro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
The Franco-Prussian War
Author: Michael Howard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134972199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134972199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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.
The Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871
Author: Stephen Badsey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472810163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 when Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. This was part of his wider political strategy of uniting Prussia with the southern German states, excluding Austria. The war was an overwhelming Prussian victory, and King Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the new united Germany. The Second Empire collapsed and Napoleon III became an exile in Britain. In the peace settlement with the French Third Republic in 1871 Germany gained the eastern French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, areas that were to provide a bone of contention for years to come.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472810163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 when Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. This was part of his wider political strategy of uniting Prussia with the southern German states, excluding Austria. The war was an overwhelming Prussian victory, and King Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the new united Germany. The Second Empire collapsed and Napoleon III became an exile in Britain. In the peace settlement with the French Third Republic in 1871 Germany gained the eastern French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, areas that were to provide a bone of contention for years to come.
The Battle of Dorking
Author: George Tomkyns Chesney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Franco-German War of 1870-71
Author: Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Von Schlieffen's Cannae Atlas
Author: Count Alfred Von Schlieffen
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
ISBN: 9781783313952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
All 101 tactical colour maps from Count Alfred Von Schlieffen's masterly treatise "CANNAE." All maps are full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects. This is a very impressive collection of maps that cover the battle of Cannae, the campaigns of Frederick the Great, and Napoleon, and the campaigns of 1866 and 1870-1.
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
ISBN: 9781783313952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
All 101 tactical colour maps from Count Alfred Von Schlieffen's masterly treatise "CANNAE." All maps are full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects. This is a very impressive collection of maps that cover the battle of Cannae, the campaigns of Frederick the Great, and Napoleon, and the campaigns of 1866 and 1870-1.
The Culture of Defeat
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466851171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare-the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I-Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural reactions of vanquished nations to the experience of military defeat. Drawing on responses from every level of society, Schivelbusch shows how conquered societies question the foundations of their identities and strive to emulate the victors: the South to become a "better North," the French to militarize their schools on the Prussian model, the Germans to adopt all things American. He charts the losers' paradoxical equation of military failure with cultural superiority as they generate myths to glorify their pasts and explain their losses: the nostalgic "plantation legend" after the fall of the Confederacy; the cult of Joan of Arc in vanquished France; the fiction of the stab in the back by "foreign" elements in postwar Germany. From cathartic epidemics of "dance madness" to the revolutions that so often follow battlefield humiliation, Schivelbusch finds remarkable similarities across cultures. Eloquently and vibrantly told, The Culture of Defeat is a tour de force that opens new territory for historical inquiry.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466851171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare-the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I-Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural reactions of vanquished nations to the experience of military defeat. Drawing on responses from every level of society, Schivelbusch shows how conquered societies question the foundations of their identities and strive to emulate the victors: the South to become a "better North," the French to militarize their schools on the Prussian model, the Germans to adopt all things American. He charts the losers' paradoxical equation of military failure with cultural superiority as they generate myths to glorify their pasts and explain their losses: the nostalgic "plantation legend" after the fall of the Confederacy; the cult of Joan of Arc in vanquished France; the fiction of the stab in the back by "foreign" elements in postwar Germany. From cathartic epidemics of "dance madness" to the revolutions that so often follow battlefield humiliation, Schivelbusch finds remarkable similarities across cultures. Eloquently and vibrantly told, The Culture of Defeat is a tour de force that opens new territory for historical inquiry.