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Part Two: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards

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The Final Battle in the Franco Prussian War

Modern warfare began in 18 70 at the siege of metz. It was the first time that the true scale of industrial metallurgical death revealed its true potential. Some hundred and 93 thousand french soldiers were killed. To the prussians, five thousand, 700 and forty casualties. After mes came the siege of paris, the collapse of the napoleonic dynasty,. The unification of germany and the birth of the second riche.

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