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The myth and reality of German warfare : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger
- Title
- The myth and reality of German warfare : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger / Colonel Gerhard P. Gross, Bundeswehr ; edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.) ; foreword by Robert M. Citino.
- Author
- Gross, Gerhard Paul, 1958-
- Publication
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Zabecki, David T.
- Description
- xvi, 425 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color), portraits; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Foreign military studies
- Uniform Title
- Foreign military studies
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Military history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy -- Factors and constants: space, time, and forces -- The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients -- The sword of Damocles: a two-front war -- Bitter awakening: World War I -- Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia -- Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking -- Operational thinking in the age of the atom -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9835
- ISBN
- 9780813168371
- 0813168376
- LCCN
- 2016025075
- OCLC
- 945951357
- Author
- Gross, Gerhard Paul, 1958- author.
- Title
- The myth and reality of German warfare : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger / Colonel Gerhard P. Gross, Bundeswehr ; edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.) ; foreword by Robert M. Citino.
- Publisher
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Foreign military studiesForeign military studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Added Author
- Zabecki, David T., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9835