Excerpt from Franco-German War of 1870: Source Book<br><br>This book contains extract copies of documents relating to the franco-german war of 1870 taken from the School Library. The selection of the documents has been made with a View to the use of this book for the study of the strategy and leadership of corps, armies and groups of armies during certain parts of this war. Matter concerned with tactics has been omitted except where necessary to bring out or explain some point of strategy or leadership. The documents given are not all that are important. They have been limited to what is thought may be studied in the time that has been generally assigned at these Schools to the consideration of this campaign.<br><br>The operations of the Germans in 1870 should be com pared with that of the French in 1800 and 1806, and the leadership of von Moltke contrasted with that of Napoleon. Students should be prepared to discuss this at any time dur ing the course.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.