Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Wehrmacht Retreats The Wehrmacht Retreats Robert M. Citino Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentie… OL16176782W
The Third Reich at war The Third Reich at war Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a "people's community to serve a war of c… OL1745834W
Masters of Death Masters of Death Richard Rhodes In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust. These "special task forces," organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army … OL2617749W
Fighting the Kaiser's War Fighting the Kaiser's War Lucas, Andrew (Military historian) Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no man's land are rare. This highly original book vividly… OL26182565W
Soldiers as Citizens Soldiers as Citizens Jay Lockenour "For centuries prior to 1945, the German officer corps constituted a social and political elite in Central Europe. And as this book shows, the debacle of the Second World War, the scorn of the German… OL8418404W