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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, Sir; R J Overy |
ISBN: | 1403918120 9781403918123 |
OCLC Number: | 52878765 |
Notes: | Originally published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1953. |
Description: | xxxiii, 829 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | The Army and the Reich, 1918-1926 -- From Spa to Kapp (November 1918-March 1920) -- The Seeckt Period (1920-1926) -- The Army and Hitler, 1920-1933 -- Courtship, Honeymoon and Separation (1920-1926) -- The Schleicher Period (1926-1933) -- Hitler and the Army, 1933-1945 -- From the Seizure of Power to the Death of Hindenburg (January 1933-1934) -- From the Death of Hindenburg to the Fritsch Crisis (August 1934-February 1938) -- From the Fritsch Crisis to the Outbreak of War (February 1938-September 1939) -- Victory in the East and the 'Phoney War' (September 1939-June 1940) -- From the Blitzkrieg to Stalingrad (July 1940-February 1943) -- From Stalingrad to Normandy (February 1943-July 1944) -- July 20, 1944. |
Responsibility: | John W. Wheeler-Bennett ; with a new introduction by Richard Overy. |
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'It is, by its very detail, a fascinating book, and by its scope a majestic book and by its scholarship an illuminating book.' - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times'No-one...can rise from The Nemesis of Power without a keen sense of the stature, quality and equipment of [Sir John] Wheeler-Bennett as a contemporary historian.' - Lord Longford, Catholic Herald Read more...

