The military attache / Alfred Vagts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vagts, Alfred, 1892- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military attachés.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1967.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is both a history of the service attaché, beginning with the Napoleonic era, and a discussion of his changing role, past and present. Professor Vagts shows the military adviser temporarily joined to the diplomatic corps as a person often divided in his loyalties to diplomatic officials and to military leaders. Affected by increasing bureaucratic specialization, he sometimes became a "twilight" figure engaged in political activity and even espionage. Professor Vagts' numerous works on the history of militarism and the military, in both German and English, and his research in the chancelleries of Europe have given him perspective for this book.Originally published in 1967.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Historical Outline

1. Forerunners and Beginnings

2. The Nineteenth Century

3. The First World War

4. Between the Wars

5. The Second World War

6. After 1945

7. The Service Attaché and "Society"

8. The Service Attaché as Politico

9. Attaché into Ambassador

Part II. Fields of Activity for Attachés

10. The Attaché as Observer

11. Spying Attachés and Diplomacy

12. Attachés and War Economy

13. Observers of Battle

14. Attachés and the Limitation of Armaments

15. Attachés in the Service of Autocracy

16. Mission Chiefs and Service Attachés

17. Service Attachés and the Alliances

18. Survival of the Service Attaché?

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691650067

0691650063

9781400876358

1400876354

OCLC:

927444116