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Compelling, illuminating ... Chrastil's compassionate and thought-provoking history does justice to both sides of this legacy, the great statesman's achievements tempered with their human cost.
Camilla Cassidy, Daily Telegraph
Superb on the human consequences of war. It is ravishing in its evocations of wartime life ... [the] prose is crystal clear.
Pratinav Anil, The Times
An extraordinary story too little known in Britain ... Chrastil addresses the story with a modern eye, especially for issues of gender and civilian victimhood. She displays considerable knowledge... The book [offers] fascinating details about the conflict.
Max Hastings, Sunday Times
A fresh and compelling history of the most important European war between Waterloo and World War I. In rich and engaging detail, 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. A tour-de-force.
David A. Bell, Princeton University
Bismarck's War brings the Franco-Prussian War to life through the words and deeds of participants both on and off the battlefield. Rachel Chrastil's fascinating examination of the conflict compellingly narrates its military and political dimensions, and it puts the war in a global context, emphasizing its human cost and the international response to the humanitarian crisis it created. An engrossing, compassionate, and critical interrogation of a decisive historical event.
Carolyn J. Eichner, author of The Paris Commune
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