a triumph for the new Prussian king. Frederick II accedes to the throne of Prussia after the death of his father. A few months later, he invades Silesia and starts an eight-year war with Austria.

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 ...

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 ...