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 ...

ISBN:0-521-58436-1 An insightful account of one of perhaps the most critical European war of the period between the Waterloo and the “Guns of August,” which brought about the collapse of the French ...

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, ...

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 ...