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Lädt ... The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))von Robert M. Citino
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Besides being the culminating point of a career spent writing about the German military that fought World War II, and an examination of the death of the Prussian way of war, this book also represents Citino's coming to grips with the collapse of the Cold War myths of a "clean" German army and the recognition that the criminality of the Nazi regime was enabled by the German officer corps. In this analysis the paradigmatic German general is not Erwin Rommel, Gerd von Rundstedt, or even Heinz Guderian. Citino nominates Ferdinand Schorner for this position. Schorner being a man who was always willing to unquestioningly follow Hitler's orders, who continued to execute his men for nebulous failures in discipline even after Hitler's suicide, and who abandoned his post to try and surrender to the Americans; only to find himself unceremoniously handed over to the Soviets. Recommended. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheModern War Studies (2017)
"By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this gripping account of German military campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a 'war of movement,' inexorably led to Nazi Germany's defeat. The Wehrmacht's Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or 'death ride,' from January 1944--with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine--until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino's previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht's Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army's strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II"--Provided by publisher.
"This third volume in Rob Citino's 'Wehrmacht trilogy' looks at the fight of the German Wehrmacht against the Allies from January 1944 to May 1945. One of the most pressing questions of World War II is: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? What kept the General Staff planning, the commanders commanding, and the soldiers fighting, even when the situation clearly seemed hopeless? Over the years, historians have posited various answers. Hitler seems the key reason that Germany fought on when most nations would have cracked. Other scholars point to the role of ideology and to National Socialist indoctrination as the heart of Germany's prolonged resistance. Rob Citino maintains the 'German way of war' led the German army to fight on to the bitter end. In a wider context it invites a reconsideration of why armies fight"--Provided by publisher. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It's always seemed to me a bit churlish to complain about a book's length; after all, you can tell it's a doorstop when you pick it up, but I do think that it's too long a book by half for general readers such as myself to enjoy, and, yes, I do think that a perceptive editor would have put the author's obsession with Brandenburger/Prussian/German military culture on a shorter leash. He's already given us a whole book on the subject for those interested. Likewise the endless references to the campaigns of Friedrich der Grosse; yes, the Nazi hierarchy was obsessed in the winter of 1945 with their insistence that they were going to reenact it, but surely the first two or three references would suffice. And must every fifth sentence have a word explicated with its German translation? I did enjoy the author's willingness to adopt unconventional points of view (e.g., he considers Eisenhower underappreciated, Rommel overrated) and his campaign descriptions are always clear. As is seemingly ubiquitous these days, typographical errors abound. There are many maps, but they are small and not usually helpful in elucidating the narrative. ( )