Ronald Pawly

The Kaiser's Warlords (eBook, ePUB)

German Commanders of World War I
Illustrator: Courcelle, Patrice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The turn of the 20th century saw Imperial Germany as essentially a militarist state.

Its growing industrial resources and wealth were harnessed to the task of increasing German military power, at a time of aggressive expansionist diplomacy in competition with Britain and France. After her victories over Austria in the 1860s and France in 1870, Germany's General Staff enjoyed tremendous professional prestige throughout Europe, and was the model for all aspects of command and control.

This richly illustrated volume discusses the Imperial German army - essentially that of Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony with smaller contingents from the lesser states - and its generals, the men who planned, initiated, and to a large extent controlled the course of World War I.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780966304
• Artikelnr.: 38350270

Autorenporträt

Ronald Pawly, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1956, is a member of several international societies for Napoleonic studies. His forté is research in the field of military portraiture. He contributed to two major French reference works, Répertoire Mondial des Souvenirs Napoléonien and Dictionnaire des Colonels de Napoléon. In 1998 he published his first major work, The Red Lancers - Anatomy of a Napoleonic Regiment.

Inhaltsangabe

The Kaiser
The Crown Prince
Generals
von Below
von Bulow
von Einem
von Falkenhayn
von Francois
Haeseler
von Heeringen
Hindenburg
von Kluck
von Lettow-Vorbeck
Ludendorf
von Mackensen
Adml. Tirpitz