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Title: 1864
Condition: New
Description: The Battle of Dybbøl, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun by the might of the Prussian onslaught. Of little strategic importance, the struggle for Schleswig foreshadowed the same forces that, fifty years later, would tear Europe apart. Prussia's victory would not only rejuvenate its nascent militarism, but help it claim leadership of the new German Empire.Told in rich detail through first-hand accounts, Tom Buk-Swienty's magisterial account of the Schleswig conflict tells the story of this pivotal war. 1864 shows how a minor regional conflict foreshadowed the course of diplomacy that led to the First World War and brutally presaged the industrialised future of warfare. But most of all, in its human detail, from touching letters between husbands and wives to heartbreaking individual stories of loss, 1864 is a gripping, epic human drama that shows the effect all wars have on the soldiers, on families and on the individual men and women who must live its realities.
Author: Tom Buk-Swienty
Contributor: Annette Buk-Swienty (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
Subtitle: The forgotten war that shaped modern Europe
ISBN-10: 1781252769
EAN: 9781781252765
ISBN: 9781781252765
Edition: Main
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Weight: 320g
Genre: History
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 02/04/2015
Language: English
Item Width: 28mm
Translator: Annette Buk-Swienty
Topic: Military History
Release Year: 2015

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