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Two Accounts of the Battle of Sedan, 1st September 1870 (Hardcover)
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Two Accounts of the Battle of Sedan, 1st September 1870 (Hardcover)
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These two accounts of the battle of Sedan in 1870 have been
combined for good value to enable readers to gain a balanced
overview of the action from different perspectives. What makes
these accounts particularly interesting is that they were written
not only by authors who were able to view the events without the
impediment of national bias, but because both were present on the
field of battle itself. So this excellent book offers the reader a
history, an analysis, first-hand eyewitness accounts, the accounts
and views of other witnesses and participants and a number of
anecdotes including those concerning General Sheridan. This most
significant of battles of the Franco-Prussian War came about as the
numerically superior French Army under MacMahon attempted to
relieve the siege of Metz. That attempt failed as the French were
defeated at Beaumont. Moltke, Bismarck and the king, Wilhelm I,
subsequently cornered the French at Sedan and surrounded them. The
Emperor, Napoleon III, was with the French forces and, unable to
escape, suffered the humiliation of both defeat and personal
capture. This battle typified the pattern of the Franco-Prussian
War which, following the lessons of the American Civil War, took
armed conflict on its first steps into the industrial age. All of
those lessons had been learnt by the Prussians and very few of them
by the French, whose view of warfare and especially of the
Prussians remained, to their cost, rooted in the experiences of
another Napoleon and entirely different French and Prussian Armies
in the days of the First Empire. Times had changed the French had
been out-planned, out-organised, out-manoeuvred and
out-gunned.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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