VIII/372 pp. - 350 colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2019
French text

POST OF THE ARMIES DURING THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870-71

The work focuses on the post services that accompanied the French and the German Armies during the war of 1870-71, characterized by a series of distinguished campaigns.

Six chapters deal each with the military of one of these campaigns, from the French and German point of views.
Two chapters, as well as three enclosures, describe the military correspondence that used other services, civil or private.
Annex A proposes the list of military Post Offices and depicts their postmarks for each campaign.
Annexes B and C inventory the correspondence surviving the sieges of Paris, Metz and Belfot.
Further annexes list the correspondence of the Paris army, the connections of fieldpost or deal with the correspondence of the French Navy, of prisoners of war, or of the one sent by means of the Red Cross.

The conflict appears through the movements of military Post Offices and this book proposes a detailed study of postmarks and of military postal organizations in France and Germany.

The work is based upon military correspondences of every kind, that are richly illustrated and that cast light on this war, that was as short as complex.