The Siege of Strasbourg

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The Siege of Strasbourg is written by Rachel Chrastil and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674416295 (ISBN 10) and 9780674416291 (ISBN 13).

For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians.