The Special Campaign Series: The Campaign in Bohemia 1866

By G J Glunicke

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history, each volume is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous sketches. Austro-Prussian War or The Seven Weeks' War was Part of the wars of German unification, the main campaign of the war occurred in Bohemia. Prussian Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke had planned meticulously for the war. He rapidly mobilised the Prussian Army and advanced across the border into Saxony and Bohemia, where the Austrian Army was concentrating for an invasion of Silesia. There, the Prussian armies, led nominally by King William I, converged, and the two sides met at the Battle of K niggr tz (Hradec Kr lov ) on 3 July. The Prussian Elbe Army advanced on the Austrian left wing, and the First Army on the centre, prematurely; they risked being counter-flanked on their own left. Victory therefore depended on the timely arrival of the Second Army on the left wing. This was achieved through the brilliant work of its Chief of Staff, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal. Superior Prussian organisation and lan decided the battle against Austrian numerical superiority, and the victory was near total, with Austrian battle deaths nearly seven times the Prussian figure. An armistice between Prussia and Austria came into effect at noon on 22 July. A preliminary peace was signed on 26 July at Nikolsburg. Print size 21x29.7 cm to accommodate the oversized maps.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783315458
• ISBN13: 9781783315451
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.7"