Scott Stephenson

The Final Battle

Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 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: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9781107632363
• ISBN-10: 1107632366
• Artikelnr.: 39343919

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.