Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe; By Rachel Chrastil; Basic Books; 512 pp., $35.00 This was a mechanized conflict involving modern weaponry, featuring the first ...
THE capture of Napoleon III at Sedan on Sept. 2,1870, ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the ...
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Achille Kahn, one of the last survivors of the Franco-Prussion war of 1871, died here at the age of 84. He had been decorated with the war medal for valor. The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ...