19th nineteenth century
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fortress city
Franco-Prussian War
French Army of the Rhine
German Empire
illustrated
maps
Marshal Bazaine
Metz
Napoleon III
photographic
Prussia
Second Republic
Sedan
strategy
tactic
Product details
- ISBN 9781855322868
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 184 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 1993
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A fully-illustrated, detailed volume on Gravelotte-St-Privat, probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War.
Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussians before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city of Metz. Unable to break out and with no hope of relief Bazaine's army grimly held on to the end of the war.
Philipp Elliot-Wright explores the French failure at Gravelotte-St-Privat, which led directly to their final defeat at Sedan, the collapse of Napoleon III's regime and the proclamation of the German Empire.
Philipp Elliot-Wright is a professor and Head of the School of Law at the University of West London. He is the author of several books on military history, including Gravelotte-St-Privat 1870: End of the Second Empire for Osprey Publishing.
