In “Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe,” Ms. Chrastil, a historian at Xavier University, deftly uses Dietrich’s diary and other sources to enliven her ...

Amelia Bonea, The Medium and Its Message: Reporting the Austro-Prussian War in the "Times of India", Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 35, No. 1 (131), Global ...

The War-sffice at Washington will follow the example of the War-sffice here, and will perhaps be even wiser in its generation. It will do just what answers its purpose, without a particle of ...

Military Operations in the Austro-Prussian War Originally published in German in 1870, Theodor Fontane’s account of events in the principal theatre of the Seven Weeks War appears here for the first ...

Instead of a Hundred Years’, Thirty Years’ or even Seven Years’ War, the nineteenth century (from 1815) saw conflicts that lasted months and in the case of the Austro-Prussian War just seven ...

Through investigation of the contemporary French press it can be shown that: (1) the perceived function of musical performance was adjusted to suit the practical and symbolic needs of a besieged city; ...

In April 1917 Europe had been at war almost three years. On June 28, 1914 a Serbian terrorist killed Archduke Ferdinand, the heir to the Hapsburg throne of Austro-Hungary. Vienna accused Belgrade ...

After a relatively short overview of the fate of the Habsburg realm during the wars of religion and of Louis XIV, Mitchell concentrates on events from the from the War of the Spanish Succession ...