The First Soldier
Hitler as Military LeaderAfter Germany s humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country s brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer s erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent.
That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany s fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler s tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler s thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. ISBN: 9780300205985, 0300205988
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