The title of the book is “DIE SCHLACHT BEI WORTH: EIN FUHRER UBER DAS SCHLACHTFELD” OR “THE BATTLE OF WORTH: A BATTLEFIELD GUIDE” by Major Rudolf Mohr.

Book meas. approx. 5.25 x 8.25 inches and runs 80 pages with several fold out color maps and a large fold out map at back.

Volume has paper covers with the front decoration has the title with a green arbor with Prussian black, white and red coloring.

The interior is in good condition and is entirely written in German.

The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars). In the second battle, troops from Germany commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William and directed by his chief of staff, General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, defeated the French under Marshal MacMahon near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River, 6.2 mi north of Haguenau. The victorious Germans suffered a loss of 10,556 killed, wounded, and captured while the French lost 15,096 men.   [ad][PH:L]

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