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Free Download Jacek Jdrysiak, "Prussian Strategic Thought 18151830: Beyond Clausewitz "
English | ISBN: 9004438424 | 2020 | 540 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Prussian Military Thought 1815-1830: Beyond Clausewitz Jacek Jdrysiak offers a new perspective on the Prussian army after the Napoleonic wars in order to better understand the classic text On War by Carl von Clausewitz.

Free Download Carl Rückert’s Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War by Alfred Kelly
English | September 22, 2018 | ISBN: 9783319958033 | 230 pages | EPUB | 8.17 Mb
This book offers the first English-language translation of the finest soldier’s memoir to emerge from the Franco-Prussian War, titled With my Rucksack: The Unvarnished Campaign Memoirs of an Infantryman from the Year 1870 by Carl Rückert. Lasting from 1870-1871, this was the war that made the modern German nation and set Europe on the path to World War I, and Carl Rückert offers an unrivalled worm’s eye view of the experiences of common soldiers who fought in it. A Hessian lance corporal in the German army, he was a close observer of daily hardships, class tensions, the influence of nationalism, and the terrors of combat. He was gravely wounded in the war’s decisive battle at Gravelotte, where he was among the first Europeans to face the horrors of breech-loading rifles, machine guns, and accurate artillery. Accompanied by an insightful translator’s introduction and a wealth of footnotes, this book is an invaluable link to the everyday realities of the Franco-Prussian War.

Free Download Hans Thiel, "The Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier’s Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front"
English | ISBN: 0786429712 | 2007 | 191 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People’s Army. His new draft called into service all remaining able-bodied men, including those whose civilian labor had previously been deemed indispensable. Among the latter was an East Prussian farmer named Hans Thiel, who suddenly found himself on the Eastern front, fighting not to bring glory to the Nazi Party (for which he felt at best a troubled resignation) but to save his country from destruction. With the defeat of the Germans, Thiel was taken prisoner by the advancing Soviet forces.

Free Download Nightmares of an East Prussian Childhood: A Memoir of the Russian Occupation by Ilse Stritzke, Bernie Stritzke
English | April 12, 2013 | ISBN: 0786473541 | True EPUB | 200 pages | 3.2 MB
The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents. That decision cost her family dearly in wartorn Europe, 1945. Ilse grew up on a small farm, with a wonderful family, the woods as a playground and the beaches of the Baltic.

Free Download The Prussian Army of Frederick the Great, 1740-1786
by Gabriele Esposito;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781399051859 | 194 pages | True PDF EPUB | 279.5 MB

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1541604091 | 512 pages | PDF | 46 Mb
A "vivid and informative" (Daily Telegraph) new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe, UK Edition by Rachel Chrastil
English | September 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241419190 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 71.78 MB
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe’s pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further French resistance, a new German Empire was proclaimed (as a deliberate humiliation) in the Palace of Versailles, leaving the French to face civil war in Paris, reparations and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWG93PQ1 | 2023 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 508 MB
Author: Rachel Chrastil
Narrator: Sarah Borges
A new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I. Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck’s War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full, while also showing in intimate detail how the war reshaped and blurred the boundaries between civilian and soldier as the fighting swept across France. The result is the definitive history of a transformative conflict that changed Europe, and the history of warfare, forever.