Bismarck in the Franco-German War, 1870-1871, Two Volumes in One (Authorized Edition)

x, 364, 347 pp. Eight pages of publisher ads follow text. Two volumes in one. Teutonic cross incorporated into Prussian heraldry on front board. VOLUME I CONTENTS: Departure of the Chancellor; I Follow Him to Saarbrucken; Journey Continued to the French Frontier; The Mobilised Foreign Office; From the Frontier to Gravelotte; Commercy; Bar-le-duc; Clermont in Argonne; We Turn Northwards; The Chancellor in Rezonville; Battles and Battle-field of Beaumont; The Day of Sedan; Bismarck and Napoleon at Doncherry; From the Meuse to the Marne; Bismarck and Favre in Haute-Maison; A Fortnight in Rothschild's Chateau; The Journey to Versailles; The House of Madame Jesse; Our Usual Life There; Autumn Days in Versailles; Thiers and the First Negotiations for an Armistice; Lothar Bucher and Privy Councillor Abeken. VOLUME II CONTENTS: Increasing Anxiety for Decisive Action in Several Directions; The Difficulty in the Reichstag About the Convention with Bavaria Removed; The Bombardment Put Off; Prospects Before Paris Improve; Chaudordy and Facts; Officers Breaking Their Parole; French Misconstructions; The Crown Prince Entertained by the Chief; First Weeks of the Bombardment; The Last Weeks Before the Capitulation of Paris; Negotiations for the Capitulation of Paris; From Gambetta's Retirement to the Conclusion of the Peace Preliminaries.