Need a good text on the military consequences of the Franco-Prussian war

[In Bloom]

Does anybody know of a decent book on the Franco-Prussian war that covers the military stuff well? Would be much appreciated if somebody could reccomend one.

 

[Random]

I'm just reading AJP Taylor's 'Struggle for Mastery in Europe', which is 1848-1918, but he's usually better on diplomatic an political implications than military...

<racking brains>

 

[Pickman's model]

Michael Eliot Howard, The Franco-Prussian War : the German invasion of France, 1870-1871 2nd ed. (London : Routledge, 2001)

 

[davgraham]

Does anybody know of a decent book on the Franco-Prussian war that covers the military stuff well? Would be much appreciated if somebody could reccomend one.

Didn't Engels do something on this - contrasting the new technology in rifles with the American Civil that was only four or five years earlier?

At least it wouild be 'contemporary'!

gra

 

[Larry O'Hara]

If you want the conflict placed in larger context, there might be a few useful pages in Kennedy's the Rise & Fall of Great Powers: wouldn't swear by it though, & my copy is currently in deep storage.