With two excellent studies of the 1870-1871 Franco-German War already available, Sir Michael Howard's venerable classic Franco-Prussian War ... if ultimately unsuccessful effort of the French ...

It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on ... onto which was painted a single word: 'French'. “The boys referred to gang-fighting ...

In 1871 as the French and German armies were engaged in fierce fighting during the Franco-Prussian War, a brave French soldier emerged unarmed from the safety of his foxhole and began singing ...

But as Nash demonstrates, the Franco-Prussian War deserves to be better known ... the Commune was exterminated without mercy, with French soldiers slaughtering fellow French men, women, and children, ...