Although the book necessarily is focused on the decisive Austro-Prussian clash at Königgrätz ... his service in the Turko-Egyptian War, the political and military developments in the German states ...
Philadelphiia: Casemate Pub, 2013. Pp. 374. Illus., maps, tables, appends., notes, biblio., index. $69.95. ISBN: 1935149237. The Origins of the German Imperial Army ...
By the time the war ended, the Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Prussian Empires had collapsed. The war claimed over 37 million lives, and large swathes of Europe lay in complete destruction.