Download or read book Gravelotte St Privat 1870 written by Philipp Elliot-Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully-illustrated, detailed volume on Gravelotte-St-Privat, probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War. Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussians before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city of Metz. Unable to break out and with no hope of relief Bazaine's army grimly held on to the end of the war. Philipp Elliot-Wright explores the French failure at Gravelotte-St-Privat, which led directly to their final defeat at Sedan, the collapse of Napoleon III's regime and the proclamation of the German Empire.
Download or read book Gravelotte St Privat 1870 written by Philipp J. C. Elliot-Wright and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Four Hours of Moltke s Strategydisplayed and Explained from the Battles of Gravelotte and St Privat 18th August 1870 written by Fritz Hoenig and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Gravelotte - St. Privat, fought on August 18th - came early in the Franco-Prussian War and, although a Pyrrhic victory for the Prussians (their casualties were more than twice those of the French) - proved a strategic victory from which the French never recovered. Fought just west of the fortress city of Metz in Lorraine it followed a defeat inflicted on France the previous day at Mars-le-Tour, and was the final vindication of the tactics used by the brilliantly ruthless German C-in-C Field Marshal Hellmuth Von Moltke whose battle strategy if the subject of this absorbing book. The Prussian First and Second Armies, numbering 188,332 and equipped with 732 heavy cannon, outnumbered and outgunned their opponents in the French Army of the Rhine commanded by the brave but inept and unlucky Marshal Achille Bazaine. The French numbered some 112,800 and had the advantage of a strong defensive position above a ravine which they had spent the night entrenching and strengthening. Despite this, the Prussians launched repeated attacks across the ravine. Pinned down by merciless fire from the superior French Chassepot rifles, the Prussians responded with their Krupp heavy guns. Although the armies finished the battle exhausted and in stalemate, with the Prussians having casualties of 20,000 against French losses of less than half that number, the strategic victory was Moltke's since he had blocked the French retreat to the fortress town of Verdun and the next day Bazaine fell back to Metz, where he remained bottled up and unable to take further part in the war: a dereliction of duty for which he was later court-martialled and imprisoned - finally escaping to die in impoverished exile in Spain.
Download or read book The Franco Prussian War 1870 1871 written by Stephen Badsey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 when Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. This was part of his wider political strategy of uniting Prussia with the southern German states, excluding Austria. The war was an overwhelming Prussian victory, and King Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the new united Germany. The Second Empire collapsed and Napoleon III became an exile in Britain. In the peace settlement with the French Third Republic in 1871 Germany gained the eastern French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, areas that were to provide a bone of contention for years to come.
Download or read book The Franco German War of 1870 71 written by Helmuth Graf von Moltke and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sedan 1870 written by Douglas Fermer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian analyzes the Franco-Prussian War’s Battle of Sedan, from its causes and effects, to the characters involved. The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event in that war. For the Germans, their overwhelming victory symbolized the birth of their nation, forged in steel and tempered in the blood of the common enemy. For the French, it was a defeat more complete and humiliating than Waterloo. Author Douglas Fermer’s fresh study of this traumatic moment in European history reconsiders how the mutual fear and insecurity of two rival nations tempted their governments to seek a solution to domestic tensions by waging war against each other. His compelling narrative shows how war came about, and how the dramatic campaign of summer 1870 culminated in a momentous clash of arms at Sedan. He gives fascinating insights into the personalities and aims of the politicians and generals involved but also spotlights the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians. Praise for Sedan 1870 “Fermer is an eminently readable author and his books well worth the investment. Sedan 1870, is an excellent study in hubris and hunger, doctrine and professionalism and the underlying motivation that drives troops, regardless of the quality of their leadership, to astonishing levels of self-sacrifice.” —Chris Buckham, The Military Reviewer
Download or read book Gravelotte St Privat 1870 written by Philipp Elliot-Wright and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian's before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city of Metz. Unable to break out and with no hope of relief Bazaine's army grimly held on to the end of the war. French failure at Gravelotte-St-Privat led directly to their final defeat at Sedan, the collapse of Napoleon III's regime and the proclamation of the German Empire.
Download or read book Death of the Wehrmacht written by Robert M. Citino and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army's emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the "war of movement"-attempts to smash the enemy in "short and lively" campaigns-as they were in Hitler's deeply flawed management of the war. From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler's expansionist ambitions. He examines every major campaign and battle in the Russian and North African theaters throughout the year to assess how a military geared to quick and decisive victories coped when the tide turned against it. Citino also reconstructs the German generals' view of the war and illuminates the multiple contingencies that might have produced more favorable results. In addition, he cites the fatal extreme aggressiveness of German commanders like Erwin Rommel and assesses how the German system of command and its commitment to the "independence of subordinate commanders" suffered under the thumb of Hitler and chief of staff General Franz Halder. More than the turning point of a war, 1942 marked the death of a very old and traditional pattern of warmaking, with the classic "German way of war" unable to meet the challenges of the twentieth century. Blending masterly research with a gripping narrative, Citino's remarkable work provides a fresh and revealing look at how one of history's most powerful armies began to founder in its quest for world domination.
Download or read book The Tactical Employment of Quick firing Field Artillery written by Gabriel Rouquerol and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Franco Prussian War written by Henry Montague Hozier and published by London : W. Mackenzie. This book was released on 1870 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Russo Turkish War 1877 written by Ian Drury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 April 1877 Tsar Alexander II declared war on the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan had a battle-hardened army ready for war. For the Tsar, this was to be the first major conflict since the abolition of serfdom and the creation of a German-style military reserve system. Ian Drury details the campaigns fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, and the uniforms and organisation of the armies of both sides, in a text backed by numerous illustrations and photographs, including eight full page colour plates by Raffaele Ruggeri.
Download or read book Twenty four Hours of Moltke s Strategy written by Fritz August Hoenig and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Debacle written by Emile Zola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Download or read book The Franco Prussian War written by Geoffrey Wawro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, that violently changed the course of European history.
Download or read book Battles Around Metz written by E. von Schmid and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lorraine Campaign written by Hugh Marshall Cole and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.
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