Scientia Militaria (Feb 2012)

A MILITARY HISTORY OF GERMANY: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present day.

  • Richard J. Haines

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5787/6-2-860
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2

Abstract

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The central role of the army in the historical development of Germany has long been worried- at by historians and has formed the subject of a number of specialised studies. Yet since the publicaton of Gordon A. Craig's The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1915 (1955) and Karl Demeter's The German Officer Corps in Society and State 1640-1935 (1965), there has been no attempt to synthesize the findings of these monographs into a book capable of appealing to the general reader until the publication of A Military History of Germany.

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