The first soldier : Hitler as military leader / Stephen G. Fritz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fritz, Stephen G., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Military leadership.

Hitler, Adolf.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

Heads of state--Germany--Biography.

Heads of state.

Command of troops.

Germany.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Germany.

World War, 1939-1945.

Strategy--History--20th century.

Strategy.

History.

Military campaigns.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 459 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Hitler as military leader

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent"-- Book jacket.

Contents:

Clausewitz, Hitler, and absolute war

Emergence of the idea

War in peace

Blitzkrieg Unleashed

The Blitzkrieg paradox

The lure of Lebensraum

Barbarossa: the last Blitzkrieg (June-August 1941)

Barbarossa: Catastrophe (September 1941-March 1942)

A world power or nothing at all (1942-3)

No victory, no piece (summer 1943-4)

Never again a November 1918

Hitler as Feldherr: an assessment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-436) and index.

ISBN:

9780300205985

0300205988

OCLC:

1029892733