Michael Solka is an author and historian. He has written fifteen books on Native Americans 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.

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