The Wars of German Unification: Source List

Note that this also serves as a source list for Episode #70, Do You Hear the People Sing, because they tend to run into each other.

SOURCES

Barry, Quintin. The Road to Königgrätz: Helmuth von Moltke and the Austro-Prussian War 1866. Solihull: Helion & Company, 2010. Bucholz, Arden. Moltke and the German Wars 1864–1871. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2001.

Buk-Swienty, Tom. 1864: The Forgotten War that Shaped Modern Europe. Translated by Annette Buk-Swienty. London: Profile Books, 2015.

Citino, Robert M. The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Clark, Christopher M. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. New York: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Craig, Gordon A. The Battle of Königgrätz: Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1964.

Craig, Gordon A. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.

Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Embree, Michael. Bismarck's First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864. Solihull: Helion & Company, 2006.

Embree, Michael. Too Little, Too Late: The Campaign in West and South Germany, June–July 1866. Solihull: Helion & Company, 2015.

Evans, Richard J. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914. London: Penguin Books, 2017.

Furet, François. Revolutionary France 1770–1880. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Howard, Michael. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870–1871. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961.

Horne, Alistair. The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965.

McPhee, Peter. A Social History of France, 1789–1914. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Price, Roger. Napoleon III and the Second Empire. London: Routledge, 1997.

Rapport, Mike. 1848: Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

Rothenberg, Gunther E. The Army of Francis Joseph. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1976.

Showalter, Dennis. The Wars of German Unification. London: Arnold, 2004.

Showalter, Dennis E. Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology, and the Unification of Germany. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. Steinberg, Jonathan. Bismarck: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Taylor, A. J. P. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955.

Taylor, A. J. P. The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of Germany Since 1815. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.

Wawro, Geoffrey. The Austro-Prussian War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Wawro, Geoffrey. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Wilson, Peter H. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.

Wilson, Peter H. Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.