Table of Contents

Introduction · The contingents · Baden · Bavaria · Brunswick · Hesse-Darmstadt · Mecklenburg · Saxony · Wurttemberg

About the Author

Michael Solka is an author and historian. He works mainly for the media agencies interConcept and TXT and is also involved with the ‘Word’ programme produced by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written fifteen books on American Indians and American military history for a German publishing company, but this pair of titles – beginning with Men-at-Arms 416: ‘German Armies 1870–71 (1) Prussia’ – are his first books for Osprey. He lives in Upper Bavaria, Germany. Darko Pavlovic was born in 1959 and currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. A trained architect, he now works as a full-time illustrator and writer, specialising in militaria. Darko has illustrated a number of books for Osprey including Men-at-Arms 282: 'Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941–45' and Elite 60: 'U-Boat Crews 1914–45'. He has also written and illustrated titles for the Men-at-Arms series on the Austrian army of the 19th century.