Scott Stephenson

The Final Battle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New study of the army's role in the early German republic and its legacy for Weimar and Nazism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780521519465
• ISBN-10: 0521519462
• Artikelnr.: 26182987

Autorenporträt

Scott Stephenson is Associate Professor of Military History at the Department of Military History, US Army Command and General Staff College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The divided army
2. The last ditch: German front-line soldiers in the last days of the First World War
3. Caesar without legions: the field army and the abdication of the Kaiser, November 8-9, 1918
4. Legions without Caesar: the German army's response to armistice and revolution, November 9-14, 1918
5. The last march: the German Westheer's march to the Rhine, November-December, 1918
6. Dissolution and conspiracy: the army's homecoming and demobilization, December 1918
7. The last parade: the Guards return to Berlin, December 10-22, 1918
8. The last battle: 'Bloody Christmas,' December 23-24, 1918
9. From debacle to civil war: the aftermath of 'Bloody Christmas,' December 1918-January 1919
10. Conclusion: Frontschweine and revolution.