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Presents a groundbreaking study of the evolution to the present day of one of history's most formidable war machines, the German army and its soldiers
Covers the full spectrum of German militarism: great victories and crushing defeats; professionalism, duty, self-sacrifice, and honor; duplicity and atrocities
Will prove to be an essential reference for historians, students, and the general reader of military history
Contains a foreword by renowned military historian Richard Holmes
About the Author
David Stone served as an infantry officer in the British Army for more than thirty-five years, during which time many of his assignments were in Germany. His books include "First Reich": Inside the German Army During the War with France, 1870-71; Wars of the Cold War; Campaigns and Conflicts, 1945–1990; and War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World (Potomac Books, Inc., 2005). He lives in Devon, England.
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- PublisherConway Maritime Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1844860361
- ISBN 13 9781844860364
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages488
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ISBN 10: 1844860361
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This work traces and analyses the evolution of the German fighting man and the army in which he served during three and a half centuries. It sets his patriotism against his cultural background and against the ever-changing national imperatives of the time. His cultural legacy encompassed the romanticised Teutonic legends of Germanic mythology and of the mighty Rhine. There were also the more immediate and pragmatic imperatives of national survival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which reinforced Germany's emerging awareness of its national identity, precipitating the heady brew of spectacular military victories and imperialist aspirations which dominated the following century. But then came the pervasive and misplaced - but irresistibly attractive in post-Versailles 1930s Germany - lure of National Socialism: a perverse path, which subsequently resulted in the divided and Allied-occupied German state of 1945, after a conflict which proved to be both the zenith and the nadir of his military fortunes. Finally, yet another culture with its very different social and wider priorities today underwrites the new post-Cold War Bundeswehr of reunified Germany. This new work by a former soldier seeks out and analyses the true nature of the German soldier: his motivation, his preparation for war, his conduct in battle, and all those aspects of his training, organisation, leadership, and lifestyle which may indicate why these fighters 'fur Gott und Vaterland' have consistently proved to be so formidable, and why they have had such a pronounced impact upon European and world history during the last 350 years. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003327787
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