{"product_id":"bismarcks-war-9780241419199","title":"Bismarcks War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompelling, illuminating ... Chrastil's\u003cb\u003e compassionate and thought-provoking history\u003c\/b\u003e does justice to both sides of this legacy, the great statesman's achievements tempered with their human cost. -- Camilla Cassidy * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuperb on the human consequences of war. It is ravishing in its evocations of wartime life\u003c\/b\u003e ... [the] prose is crystal clear. -- Pratinav Anil * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary story too little known in Britain ... Chrastil addresses the story with a modern eye, especially for issues of gender and civilian victimhood. She \u003cb\u003edisplays considerable knowledge... The book [offers] fascinating details about the conflict.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivid, commendable\u003c\/b\u003e ... Chrastil excels in providing vivid descriptions of military operations and their impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians ... brings these events to light in a vivid way. Her book is \u003cb\u003elikely to become the standard account of the war in English.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Robert Gerwarth * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA most engaging book\u003c\/b\u003e, distinguished by sharp insight, powerful characterization and a strong narrative flow. It is \u003cb\u003ethe best modern account of the war \u003c\/b\u003eand deserve to stand with Sir Michael Howard's classic study of 1961. -- Tim Blanning * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eElegantly written, marvellously readable\u003ci\u003e ... Bismarck's War \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003every much worth reading as a lively and effective account of a largely forgotten past conflict.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jonathan Sperber * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngrossing narrative history\u003c\/b\u003e ... The mosaic of glimpses into the human hopes and tragedies of the Franco-Prussian War \u003cb\u003eleaves one thinking long after the last page. \u003c\/b\u003e -- Katja Hoyer * Engelsberg Ideas *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an impressive work, fluent, wide-ranging, vivid in its use of sources, and central to an understanding of Europe's subsequent history. -- David Crane * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh and compelling history\u003c\/b\u003e of the most important European war between Waterloo and World War I. In\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003erich and engaging detail\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e she shows how it laid much of the foundation for the wars of the twentieth century, even as it was seen at the time, and subsequently remembered, as a relatively conventional conflict. \u003cb\u003eA tour-de-force\u003c\/b\u003e. -- David A. Bell, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBismarck's War\u003c\/i\u003e brings the Franco-Prussian War to life through the words and deeds of participants both on and off the battlefield. Rachel Chrastil's \u003cb\u003efascinating examination of the conflict compellingly narrates its military and political dimensions\u003c\/b\u003e, and it puts the war in a global context, emphasizing its human cost and the international response to the humanitarian crisis it created. \u003cb\u003eAn engrossing, compassionate, and critical interrogation of a decisive historical event.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Carolyn J. Eichner, author of The Paris Commune","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400392319319,"sku":"9780241419199","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bismarcks-war-9780241419199","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}