The Reverse of the Shield; or, the Adventures of Grenville Le Marchant during the Franco-Prussian War ... With illustrations, etc
A Franco-Prussian War adventure novel by Augusta Marryat, published in London by Frederick Warne in 1879 for general and juvenile readers. Full-page wood engravings show refugee wagons on muddy roads, French prisoners marching out of Metz in rain, a carrier pigeon arriving over a Paris street crowd, and Prussian troops facing townspeople at Nancy, useful for period crowds, uniforms and street architecture.
