The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the First World War - Hardcover

Asprey, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316906778 ISBN 13: 9780316906777

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1993

Synopsis

This double biography of the joint leaders of Germany's General Staff provides an account of the Great War from the German point of view and sheds light on the nation's disastrous defeat as a result of expanded military egos unchecked by civil authority. Even when Hindenburg led his troops home after the 1918 armistice, he declared that the German army had been, not beaten, but destroyed - the origin of the "stab in the back" concept that became Hitler's rallying cry. Both Hindenburg and Ludendorff rejected all overtures for a compromise peace, and in their different ways led their country into total war and ruin. Robert Asprey's other books include "War in the Shadows", "Semper Fidelis: A History of the Marines in World War II" and "Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma".

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About the Author

Robert B Asprey was a former US Marine Corps captain, a Fulbright scholar and a veteran writer of military history whose works are highly respected throughout the world. He died in 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316906778
• ISBN 13: 9780316906777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560