In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

$69.95. ISBN: 1906033374. Although the book necessarily is focused on the decisive Austro-Prussian clash at Königgrätz (July 3, 1866), Barry begins his tale much earlier. He gives us a look at ...