The Battle of Königgrätz, a climactic juncture in the week-long military maneuvers across Bohemia during the Austro-Prussian ...

The Battle of Münchengrätz was a pivotal engagement during the Austro-Prussian War. After suffering defeats at Hühnerwasser and Podol, the Austrian Iser Army, led by Clam-Gallas and Prince Albert of ...

The past, famously, is a foreign country. Unfortunately, it often seems that “foreign wars” fought before 1900 are too distant to find their way into our policy analysis. And without understanding the ...

As we enter spring 2024, Ukraine’s military position looks tenuous. Its counter-offensive in 2023 did not achieve the ambitious results that Ukraine’s allies had hoped for, and the Ukrainians are now ...

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 327. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN:0-521-58436-1 An insightful account of one of perhaps the most critical European war of the ...

A united German nation was about to be created under the leadership of Prussia when the 1870 census for Idaho Territory’s Boise County revealed that Germany was made up of many small states. When ...

With two excellent studies of the 1870-1871 Franco-German War already available, Sir Michael Howard's venerable classic Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871, Revised Edition ...