Flappers & Fiction

Join two American correspondents on a dusty, unpredictable trek behind the German lines of 1870. What begins as a meditation on the “Heimgang” becomes a vivid portrait of the Franco-Prussian conflict. You will sit with the iron-willed Bismarck and witness the terrifying beauty of the Gravelotte battlefield. Yet the most striking image is the Emperor himself; he appears not as the mythical Barbarossa, but as a quiet old man eating black bread on an ambulance. It is a rare, human glimpse into the machinery of empire.