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Article: A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2003
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A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War. By David Wetzel. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 244. $24.95.)
Historians of nineteenth-century European diplomatic relations will welcome this new study on the origins of the war of 1870. Although foreign books on the topic continue to appear, albeit in ever smaller numbers, very few English-language monographs have been published in the past forty years. Yet the outbreak of war in 1870--an avoidable war--set in motion a chain reaction in power politics that ended temporarily in 1918. David Wetzel seeks answers to questions concerning interaction of ...