George Hooper: 2 books

In reviewing this 1889 volume in the English Men of Action series, the Scotsman wrote: "There are few, if any, more interesting life stories in our military history than that of the great Duke, and very few lives that form a more instructive or stimulating study.  The story . . . is admirably told by Mr. Hooper."

In July, 1870, fifty-five years after the Allied Armies, who had marched from the decisive field of Waterloo, entered Paris, a young diplomatist, Baron Wimpfen, started from the French capital, for Berlin. He was the bearer of a Declaration of War, from the Emperor Napoleon III., to William I., King...