Franco-Prussian war. Otto Bismarck against Napoleon III. 1870-1871

The British military historian, a professor of Oxford University devoted his work to the military conflict between the Empire of Napoleon III and the German states led by Prussia. The war provoked by the Prussian chancellor O. Bismarck and formally begun by Napoleon III ended with the defeat and collapse of France, as a result of which Prussia managed to transform the North German Union into a single German Empire. Working on the book, the author investigated and attracted the colossal volume of scientific and documentary material and proposed his view on the causes and consequences of this war. Hovard analyzed the state of enemy troops, including structure, weapons and equipment, gave a vivid description of the battles and presented the gallery of portraits of key figures of events, among them Wilhelm I, Bismarck, Leopold Hohenzollern, Benedetti and others. In conclusion, the scientist notes that the great victory of Germany subsequently turned into a disaster, both for herself and for the rest of the world