The Danish campaign of 1864 : recollections of an Austrian general staff officer / Wilhelm von Grundorf ; Translated by Stuart Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gründorf von Zebegény, Wilhelm, Ritter, 1832-1920.

Contributor:

Sutherland, Stuart.

Standardized Title:

Memoiren eines österreichischen Generalstäblers, 1832-1866. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gründorf von Zebegény, Wilhelm, Ritter, 1832-1920.

Gründorf von Zebegény, Wilhelm.

Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864--Personal narratives, Austrian.

Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864.

Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864--Campaigns--Denmark.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Place of Publication:

Solihull, West Midlands, England : Helion & Company Ltd, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The war of 1864 between Austria and Prussia on the one side and Denmark on the other was short but important for European history. The two Germanic great powers combined to force a much weaker but intransigent Denmark to cede its two provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, which freed German territory from foreign rule, but the war also marked the end of the cooperation of Prussia and Austria and the start of a new and potentially lethal relationship between them. Indeed, just two years later the two powers were at war, and at the end of that conflict Prussia had excluded Austria from Germany and

Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Appendix: People mentioned in the text

Notes:

"Excerpted from the original edition: Memoiren eines osterreichischen Generalstablers, 1832-1866 by Wilhelm Grundorf von Zebegeny, published Stuttgart 1913."

ISBN:

9781908916426

1908916427

OCLC:

797916223