Death and Sacrifice in the Franco-Prussian War

The conflict that broke out between France and an ambitious new German state 150 years ago can lay claim to be the first modern war.

Allegory of the Siege of Paris, 1870,  by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier © Bridgeman Images.

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