Название: History of the German General Staff 1657-1945, Illustrated Edition
Автор(ы): Walter Goerlitz
Издательство: PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING
Год: 2015
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Размер: 83 MB
The HISTORY OF THE GERMAN GENERAL STAFF is the first comprehensive history of the Prussian and later German General Staff from its earliest beginnings in the Thirty Years' War to the German unconditional surrender in 1945. With the dawn of the industrial age, war was taken out of the hands of monarchs and aristocrats. During the first decades of its existence the German General Staff was led by idealists with constructive political conceptions and ethical and Christian mentality. The emergence of the anonymous technicians, whose political convictions were either non-existent or formed by military necessity or ambitions, only served to aggravate an expansionist, adventurous, and militaristic national temperament.