A Duel of Nations

A Duel of Nations
Author: David Wetzel
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299291332


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On July 19, 1870, Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war against the Prussia of King William I and Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. This book depicts the world in which that war took place. In this study of the diplomatic history of the Franco-Prussian War, the author draws extensively on private and official records, journalistic accounts, cabinet minutes, and public statements by key players to produce a book that is unmatched in the range and clarity of its analysis, its characterizations, and its vivid language. -- Description from book cover.


A Duel of Nations
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: David Wetzel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-04 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

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On July 19, 1870, Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war against the Prussia of King William I and Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. This book depicts the
A Duel of Giants
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: David Wetzel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed
War and the Law of Nations
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Stephen C. Neff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This 2005 volume is a history of war, from an international law perspective, from Roman times to the present.
On War
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Carl von Clausewitz
Categories: Military art and science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1908 - Publisher:

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Dueling
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Kevin McAleer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The question of what it takes "to be a man" comes under scrutiny in this sharp, often playful, cultural critique of the German duel--the deadliest type of one-o