To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. This is a new history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the ...

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria ...

But they repeatedly reversed these decisions. Apart from Austria, Prussia was the strongest German state. It was the only state that showed any real ability to unite Germany. It was clear that ...

Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility ...

"The idea that Prussia could take the field against me by herself," he said, "seems so ridiculous that it does not merit discussion." Within three weeks in October of 1806, he brought the ...