Bismarck's First War

This book chronicles the final conflict over the now almost forgotten 'Schleswig-Holstein Question', once a pivotal issue for the great powers of Europe. The campaign of Schleswig and Jutland was also the first of Otto von Bismarck's Wars of German Unification, which together created a united German Empire under Prussian leadership. This conflict was the first in which one of the protagonists' armies was equipped solely with breech-loading rifles; it also saw extensive use of military telegraphy, rifled and cast-iron artillery and ironclad warships. The detailed story of this, the last of the 'Cabinet Wars', is told here for the first time in English, compiled from numerous published and unpublished sources, including many contemporary and first hand accounts, as well as official reports. This is an invaluable resource for any student of the mid 19th Century.