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DoubleSecretProbation said:
Almost right. This happened at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. The Seven Years War was in the late 1750s and ended in the 1763. Many of the British missteps that led to the American Revolution were a result of trying to pay for that war.

Frederick the Great ruled Prussia which eventually formed the core of what would become the German Empire but he was dead long before that happened and he never encountered Napoleon in battle.
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Thank you!
I always get those two AND the Mexican- American war versus the Spanish American War ....timeframes

One was 1840s and the other was 1890s ish....can’t remember which was which !
 
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KYNC89 said:
You know your history. After the Napoleonic wars, much of Central Europe was destabilized. However even before the wars Prussia was already a fast growing power within Europe. Prussia was established as a power years after with a fast growth in industry and a esteemed military. Otto von Bismarck used this to his advantage with several little wars that made Prussian influence far greater and leaving Austria out of the German loop. After the defeat of France, German unification was complete.
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Hell yes nice!

German unification is fascinating

Italian national formation as well ...but to an arguably lesser impactful degree
 
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The two “purely” World War One refs in my modest collection are:
“the First World War” by John Keegan (1998 I think)
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“”The battles of the Somme “ by Philip Gibbs — published in 1917

All of the battles sounded like hell on earth....add paschendale (sp?) - tannenberg - and the dareonelles “campaign”
 
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CastleRubric said:
The two “purely” World War One refs in my modest collection are:
“the First World War” by John Keegan (1998 I think)
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“”The battles of the Somme “ by Philip Gibbs — published in 1917

All of the battles sounded like hell on earth....add paschendale (sp?) - tannenberg - and the dareonelles “campaign”
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Verdun and the Somme was complete hell. The descriptions from soldiers from both sides sounds like something you see in your worst nightmares
 
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Seriously, Dan Carlin’s podcasts on WW1 are history nerd crack. About 20 hours worth of listening. “Blueprint for Armageddon” and it’s downloadable on the apple podcast app for free.
 
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On your phone search “Hardcore History” on the Podcasts app. Then look for Blueprint for Armageddon. Or go to dancarlin.com and look for the Hardcore History section.
 
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CastleRubric said:
The EU is realigning / disintegrating even as core Euro member states openly talk about a new alignment that would resemble Charlamagne's model
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Charlamagne's marble throne from 700's in Aachen Cathedral is cool to see though not overly impressive. Holy Roman Empire kings were crowned there till around 1600.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral#/media/File:Aachener_Dom_BW_2016-07-09_13-53-18.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral#/media/File:Aachener_Dom_BW_2016-07-09_13-53-18.jpg
 
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I really enjoyed The Lost Battalion movie from A&E back in the day. Never got much pub. Understand it's on Netflix now.

German Commander: "Gangsters. We're fighting New York gangsters!!" [laughing]
 
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CastleRubric said:
The two “purely” World War One refs in my modest collection are:
“the First World War” by John Keegan (1998 I think)
&
“”The battles of the Somme “ by Philip Gibbs — published in 1917

All of the battles sounded like hell on earth....add paschendale (sp?) - tannenberg - and the dareonelles “campaign”
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I have read the Keegan book, it is definitive.

As an aside, WWI was famous for producing poetry, especially on the British side ("In Flanders Fields, where poppies grow, there lie crosses, row on row . . . " + "I have a Rendezvous with Death, on some disputed hill . . . " and dozens of others, Wilfed Owen who was KIA about a week before the war ended was brilliant) and of course, from the German side, one of the great war novels ever "All Quiet on the Western Front"
 
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I have read the Keegan book, it is definitive.

As an aside, WWI was famous for producing poetry, especially on the British side ("In Flanders Fields, where poppies grow, there lie crosses, row on row . . . " + "I have a Rendezvous with Death, on some disputed hill . . . " and dozens of others, Wilfed Owen who was KIA about a week before the war ended was brilliant) and of course, from the German side, one of the great war novels ever "All Quiet on the Western Front"
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I am glad to hear you think so - I mean it
At the time (think I bought it in Atlanta around 2005 ash) when I bought it ... I had never heard of him

Surprisingly.- several of my 'bookworm buddies' all had the same enthusiastic praise for Keegan when they saw the author


I also have "1914" by A Solzhenitsyn.....I read maybe 1/4th of it but lost interest
It's a tactical story about WWI -- and I'm sure it's VERY good --- but that's not why I read his writings and I"m not interested in an action novel on the topic.....so I never finished it


If anyone knows differently and would suggest I've misjudged it - I'll certainly listen .... I did kind of drop it on an assumption I suppose
 
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