The Collected Works

Verse Plays and Epic, Vol. 8

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

Translated by Michael Hamburger and Hunter Hannum

Princeton University Press

Due/Published April 1995, 336 pages, paper

ISBN 0691043434

Campaign in France 1792 - Siege of Mainz, Goethe's narrative of the unsuccessful campaign and the siege, has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, historical hindsight, and considerable study of other published sources, it is a fascinating document of the military catastrophe exposing the decline of Prussian power since the death of Frederick II, which eventually culminated in Napoleon's devastating 1806 victory at Jena and Auerstedt.