THE WAR OF 1870. Manuscript, *The German People’s War*; 69 folio pages in 4 quires. The War of 1870 as seen from the Prussian perspective, from August 3 to September 17, 1870, including a detailed account of the Battle of Saarbrücken. Marginal notes regarding installments (3rd installment, and 7th through 9th) suggest that this is a fragmentary manuscript of a translation for a periodical of a German text, which recounts in detail the departures, the battles, the alerts, the wounded, the marches, the military engagements, and the weather, along with commentary on the course of the conflict and political debates. The first notebook begins in Lebach on August 3 and ends in Courcelles-Chaussy on August 14; the second notebook begins in Ottweiter on August 5 (the end is missing); the third notebook (7th–8th entries) covers the period from August 29 in Grandpré to August 31 in Beaumont; the fourth notebook covers the period from September 9 in Reims to September 17 outside Paris.
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€200 - €300
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Not sold
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THE WAR OF 1870. Manuscript, *The German People’s War*; 69 folio pages in 4 quires.
The War of 1870 as seen from the Prussian perspective, from August 3 to September 17, 1870, including a detailed account of the Battle of Saarbrücken.
Marginal notes regarding installments (3rd installment, and 7th through 9th) suggest that this is a fragmentary manuscript of a translation for a periodical of a German text, which recounts in detail the departures, the battles, the alerts, the wounded, the marches, the military engagements, and the weather, along with commentary on the course of the conflict and political debates.
The first notebook begins in Lebach on August 3 and ends in Courcelles-Chaussy on August 14; the second notebook begins in Ottweiter on August 5 (the end is missing); the third notebook (7th–8th entries) covers the period from August 29 in Grandpré to August 31 in Beaumont; the fourth notebook covers the period from September 9 in Reims to September 17 outside Paris.
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