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History of the German General Staff, 1657-1945 / Walter Goerlitz ; translated by Brian Battershaw ; introduction by Walter Millis.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks J 8504 G597
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Görlitz, Walter, 1913-1991.
- Standardized Title:
- Deutsche Generalstab. English
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Germany. Heer. Generalstab.
- Germany.
- Germany--History, Military.
- Germany--History--1871-.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Germany. Heer--History.
- Germany--Armed Forces--Staffs.
- Germany--Armed Forces--Officers.
- Germany--Armed Forces--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Germany. Heer. Generalstab.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 508 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Praeger, [1953]
- Contents:
- ch. 1. The beginnings
- ch. 2. The fathers : Scharnhorst and Gneisenau : the era of idealism
- ch. 3. The philosopher of war : the general staff in the age of Clausewitz
- ch. 4. The man of silence : Helmuth von Moltke
- ch. 5. Preventive war or coup e'état : Waldersee
- ch. 6. The master plan : Schlieffen
- ch. 7. War without generals : the younger Moltke and Falkenhayn, 1906-1916
- ch. 8. The silent dictatorship : Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918
- ch. 9. The sphinx : Seeckt and the "Truppenamt"
- ch. 10. The king maker : Kurt von Schleicher : Hammerstein-Equord
- ch. 11. The uneasy partnership : Ludwig von Beck : Reichenau
- ch. 12. The struggle against war : Fritsch, Blomberg, Brauchitsch
- ch. 13. Hitler triumphant
- ch. 14. The beginning of the captivity
- 15. The revolt
- ch. 16. Götterdämmerung.
- Local Notes:
- Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Görlitz, Walter, 1913-1991. Deutsche Generalstab. English. History of the German General Staff, 1657-1945.
- OCLC:
- 710638
- Publisher Number:
- x282134084
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