The Franco-Prussian War Primer

Primary

Bell, Harry; Conger, A. Latham. St. Privat: German sources. Fort LeavenWorth, Kansas: Staff College Press, 1914.

Bismarck, Otto von; Bismarck, Johanna. Bismarck’s letters to his wife: from the seat of war, 1870-1871. Translated by Armin Harder, with an introd. by Walter Littlefield. New York: D. Appleton, 1903.

Blumenthal, Leonhard von; Blumenthal, Albrecht von; Gillespie-Addison, A. D. Journals of Field-Marshal Count von Blumenthal for 1866 and 1870-71. London: Edward Arnold, 1903.

Forbes, Archibald. My experiences of the war between France and Germany, Volume 1. Copyright ed. Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1871.

Forbes, Archibald. My experiences of the war between France and Germany, Volume 2. Copyright ed. Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1871.

Hatzfeldt, Paul von; Bashford, J. L. The Hatzfeldt Letters. London: John Murray, 1905.

Hérisson, Maurice d’. Journal of a staff-officer in Paris during the events of 1870 and 1871. London: Remington & Co, 1885.

Hozier, Henry Montagu; Davenport Adams, W. H. The Franco-Prussian War: Its Causes, Incidents, and Consequences, Volume 1. London: William Mackenzie, 1872.

Hozier, Henry Montagu; Davenport Adams, W. H. The Franco-Prussian War: Its Causes, Incidents, and Consequences, Volume 2. London: William Mackenzie, 1872.

Moltke, Helmuth von; Bell, Harry. Extracts from Moltke’s correspondence pertaining to the war 1870-71. Fort LeavenWörth, Kansas: Army Service School Press, 1911.

Moltke, Helmuth von; Translated by Bell, Clara; Fischer, Henry W. The Franco-German war of 1870–71. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892.

Pflugk-Harttung, Julius Albert Georg von; Translated by Maurice, J. F.; Long, Wilfred James; Sonnenschein, A. The Franco-German War, 1870–71. London: S. Sonnenschein and Co, 1900.

Pim, Bedford. War chronicle, with memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon III, the emperor-King William I. London: Provost & Co, 1873.

Rüstow, Wilhelm; Translated by Needham, John Layland. The War for the Rhine Frontier, 1870: Its Political and Military History, Volume 1. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1872.

Rüstow, Wilhelm; Translated by Needham, John Layland. The War for the Rhine Frontier, 1870: Its Political and Military History, Volume 2. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1872.

Sheridan, Philip Henry. Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, Volume 2. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888.

Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. Franco-German War and insurrection of the commune. Washington: Government printing office, 1878.

Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. Recollections of a minister to France, 1869-1877, Volume 1. New York: C. Scribner’s sons, 1887.

Secondary

Arpad F. Kovacs. “French Military Institutions before the Franco-Prussian War.” The American Historical Review 51, no. 2 (January 1st, 1946): 217–35.

Iklé, Fred Charles. Every War Must End. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.

General Staff School. Franco-German War of 1870: Source Book. Fort LeavenWorth, Kansas: The General Service Schools Press, 1922.

Wawro, Geoffrey. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Other Works

Camphausen, Wilhelm. Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan. 1885

Camphausen, Wilhelm. The meeting of Napoleon III and Bismarck after Napoleon’s capture at the Battle of Sedan, 1870. 1878.

Illustrated London News. “The Germans Entering Paris: The Champs Elysees. 1871.” London:  the Illustrated London News, 1871.

Lewin, Otto; Schoene, Hermann; Loehr, Otto; Trupp, William. The German gun boat “Meteor” Taken while in the harbor of New York, May 3d, 1871. New York: Unknown Publisher, 1871.

Neuville, Alphonse de. Les Dernières Cartouches. 1873

Schedler, Joseph; Fillmore, Millard. Topographical map of the seat of war in Europe. New York : Published by E. Steiger, 1870.

Werner, Anton. Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm Contemplating the Corpse of French General Abel Douay. 1888

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