In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

Although the book ... Prussian clash at Königgrätz (July 3, 1866), Barry begins his tale much earlier. He gives us a look at Moltke’s early life and military education, his impressive scholarly ...

War, and the Birth of Impressionism,” which examines her relationship with Manet against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. Triggered by France’s ill-fated ...

It all started with a letter to The Times. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870, Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay, a war veteran who had witnessed the suffering of soldiers in the ...