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German Armies 1870-71: Prussia

By Darko Pavlovic , Michael Solka

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
Year
2004
ISBN
9781841767543, 1-84176-754-9
Open Library ID
OL8922669M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15176604 bytes)
Series
Men At Arms 416
Volume
vol 1
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
51\51
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The crushing victory by Prussia and her German allies in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870â€"71, destroyed one empire and created another. It finally unified the German states into an empire under Prussian leadership â€" an empire proclaimed in the very halls of captured Versailles. In 1870 Prussia's reformed mobilization system put enormous armies into the field with unprecedented efficiency. The confidence which the victory encouraged among German militarists, and the intolerable humiliation it inflicted upon France, ensured that an even more destructive war was soon inevitable. This, the first of two titles, lists and illustrates the units of Prussia and her North German Confederation, the powerhouse of a formidable military machine.

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