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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Adolf Hitler; Adolf Hitler; Adolf Hitler |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen G Fritz |
ISBN: | 9780300205985 0300205988 9780300251463 0300251467 |
OCLC Number: | 1029892733 |
Description: | xvi, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Clausewitz, Hitler, and absolute war -- Emergence of the idea -- War in peace -- Blitzkrieg Unleashed -- The Blitzkrieg paradox -- The lure of Lebensraum -- Barbarossa : the last Blitzkrieg (June-August 1941) -- Barbarossa : Catastrophe (September 1941-March 1942) -- A world power or nothing at all (1942-3) -- No victory, no peace (summer 1943-4) -- Never again a November 1918 -- Hitler as Feldherr : an assessment. |
Other Titles: | Hitler as military leader |
Responsibility: | Stephen G. Fritz. |
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"Perhaps the best account we have to date of Hitler's military leadership. It shows a scrupulous and imaginative historian at work and will cement Fritz's reputation as one of the leading historians of the military conflicts generated by Hitler's Germany."-Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War"Magnificent. Hitler emerges as a complex and nuanced military leader who cannot simply be dismissed as the dogmatic ideologue or the corporal in command. Original, insightful and authoritative Fritz's latest work is something I will return to again and again."-David Stahel, author of The Battle for Moscow"Cuts a swathe through the reconstituted arguments of countless other books about Hitler. Meticulously researched and adopting a thoroughly readable style, Fritz offers profound new insights about Hitler as commander. This is a volume which should serve as a warning to strategic leaders who become blinkered by ideology, self-absorbed and neglect the requirements of successful leadership."-Lloyd Clark, author of Blitzkrieg Read more...


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- Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945 -- Military leadership.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany.
- Command of troops.
- Strategy.
- Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
- HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
- HISTORY / Military / World War II.
- Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945.
- Heads of state.
- Military campaigns.
- Politics and government.
- Germany.