Twenty-Seven Days: The Civil War That Made Switzerland

In November 1847, Switzerland fought a civil war. It lasted twenty-seven days. Fewer than one hundred and fifty people died. And from its conclusion emerged, with a speed that astonished Europe, the stable federal republic that has endured to the present day.The Sonderbund War has no equal in the history of civil conflict: a brief, restrained military campaign that dissolved a Catholic conservativ...