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Moltke on the Art of War

Daniel Hughes
Moltke on the Art of War Book PDF

Author : Daniel Hughes
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307538512

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Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke is best known for his direction of the German/Prussian campaigns against Austria in 1866 and France in 1870-71, yet it was during his service as chief of the General Staff that he laid the foundation for the German way of war which would continue through 1945. Professor Daniel Hughes of the Air War College, in addition to editing and assisting with the translation of this selection of Moltke’s thoughts and theories on the art of war, has written an insightful commentary on “Moltke the Elder” that places him in the broader context of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s sometimes abstract philosophical ideas. The book also contains an extensive bibliographic and historiographic commentary that includes references to Moltke and his theories in the current literature in Germany, England, and the United States—a valuable aid to anyone doing research on the subject. This volume, in addition to its appeal to scholars, serves as an introduction to the theory of the German army, as well as a summary of Moltke’s enduring theoretical legacy. Praise for Moltke on the Art of War “Moltke molded the Prussian and ultimately the German army at a time of technological and economic change. For that reason . . . this book deserves a much wider audience than those interested in nineteenth-century military history. Readers will be particularly grateful for the editor’s careful explanation of terms that are easily mistranslated in English, and for concise and useful footnotes and bibliography. A model of fine editing.”—Foreign Affairs Magazine “This valuable work ably compiles the selected writings on the art of war of one of military history’s greatest geniuses. [Moltke’s] impact on American military thinking persists, especially in various military staff college curricula. Strongly recommended.”—Armed Forces Journal “A thoughtfully edited, well-translated anthology that merits a place in any serious collection on the craft of war in the modern Western world."—Journal of Military History

Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War

Annika Mombauer
Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War Book PDF

Author : Annika Mombauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521791014

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Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War by Annika Mombauer Pdf

A study of the influence of German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke, 1906-1914.

Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45

Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke
Last Letters The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke 1944 45 Book PDF

Author : Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681373829

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Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45 by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke Pdf

Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and coconspirator of Helmuth and his wife, Freya. From Helmuth’s arrival at Tegel in late September 1944 until the day of his execution by the Nazis on January 23, 1945, Poelchau would carry Helmuth’s and Freya’s letters in and out of prison daily, risking his own life. Freya would safeguard these letters for the rest of her long life. Last Letters is a profoundly personal record of the couple’s fortitude in the face of fascism.

Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War

Annika Mombauer
Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War Book PDF

Author : Annika Mombauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521791014

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Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War by Annika Mombauer Pdf

A study of the influence of German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke, 1906-1914.

Letters to Freya, 1939-1945

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
Letters to Freya 1939 1945 Book PDF

Author : Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
ISBN : WISC:89040668048

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Moltke: His Life and Character

Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Moltke His Life and Character Book PDF

Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Generals
ISBN : UCAL:$B48349

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The Moltke Myth

Terence Zuber
The Moltke Myth Book PDF

Author : Terence Zuber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132243945

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"The Moltke Myth is author Terence Zuber's groundbreaking book on Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, the chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years. Often referred to as Moltke the Elder, he is portrayed today as the nearly-infallible victor of the Prussian wars in 1864 against Denmark, in 1866 against Austria, and in 1871 against France. Moltke the Elder is known as a brilliant, innovative planner and master of the battlefield. The Moltke Myth shows that this "common knowledge" is based solely on hero-worship and simplistic generalizations." "Zuber, a career infantry officer, subjects Moltke's plans and orders to a militarily professional analysis. He asserts a new premise that Moltke was a normal human being who made grave errors like systematically failing to use cavalry reconnaissance and never knowing the location of his enemy. Zuber presents the true story about how realistic peacetime training and tactical excellence in combat helped the Prussian army win battles. The Moltke Myth offers stimulating new perspectives on tactics and strategy in the Wars of German Unification."--BOOK JACKET.

Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler

Michael Balfour,Julian Frisby
Helmuth von Moltke A Leader Against Hitler Book PDF

Author : Michael Balfour,Julian Frisby
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler by Michael Balfour,Julian Frisby Pdf

“Helmut James von Moltke [1907-1945] pursued two related goals during the Second World War: to help victims of National Socialism and to prepare for post-National Socialist Germany and Europe. He worked toward the first goal as a specialist in international law in the army’s intelligence department. There he struggled to uphold principles of international law against Nazi policies of racism and aggression. To achieve the second goal, Moltke initiated what later became known as the Kreisau Circle, a group that discussed and drafted plans to rebuild and reorganize Germany after Hitler’s defeat. By birth and character Moltke was particularly well suited for his self-appointed tasks. He succeeded in his work for the army not only because of his exceptional abilities but also because of his name, which bestowed a degree of privilege and immunity. On his father’s side, he was a grandnephew of the famous Prussian field marshal, whose Silesian estate, Kreisau, he inherited. Through his mother, he was the grandson of Sir James Rose Innes, the liberal South African judge. Partly through him, Moltke developed a strong sense of social justice and a cosmopolitanism rare among the Junkers. As an aristocrat and a devout Christian, as an internationalist with socialist sympathies, Moltke won collaborators for the Kreisau Circle in the army, the bureaucracy, the Catholic and Protestant churches, and the trade unions... Moltke was arrested in January 1944 and sentenced to death a year later, while most of his associates were convicted in the trials following the attempt to kill Hitler in July 1944. This biography shows that Moltke not only distinguished between good and evil but, more important, felt a moral imperative to combat evil. His human greatness resulted from this combination of insight and action.” — Erich Hahn, The Journal of Modern History “This book owes much to the nature of [Helmuth and Freya von Moltke’s] relationship and the frequency of the letters, and to the fact that Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby, the English friends of Moltke’s, were able to use them to quote from them extensively. In these letters the man comes alive, though the book as a whole has the merit of putting them in their biographical and historical context.” — Beate Ruhm von Oppen, The New York Times “[An] excellent and moving book... an important contribution to our knowledge of the German resistance to Hitler... For the casual reader who wants to learn how a decent and able man reacted in a situation of brutality and horror, [Balfour and Frisby] have presented an engrossing story. For fellow historians they have made available a set of indispensable documents.” — Gordon R. Mork, History “The authors of this book have had access not only to the [Kreisau] Circle’s hopeful thoughts about the future shape of Germany, but also to Moltke’s revealing and voluminous letters to his wife, who survived him. This material has been admirably employed to construct a biography in the best historical tradition: that is, one which not only brings to life the central figure, but throws abundant light upon the times in which he lived... Moltke raised his own memorial. He has been fortunate in the two biographers who in this book have delineated and interpreted it.” — R. Cecil, International Affairs “This is an important addition to the growing literature on the German Resistance movement.” — Robert E. Neil, The American Historical Review “This new biography is written with real affection by two close personal friends of Moltke... provides a more personal angle, above all by the numerous quotations from Moltke’s letters to his wife which miraculously survived the war... gives us a fascinating picture of the problems any German opposition to Hitler had to face.” — F. L. Carsten, The Slavonic and East European Review “This is Helmuth von Moltke’s story, told by two of the many friends he made in England before the war years. The drama of the story sustains the narrative... Helmuth’s letter to his wife, written the day before his execution, is worth many times the price of the book.” — Worldview

Helmuth Von Moltke

Arden Bucholz
Helmuth Von Moltke Book PDF

Author : Arden Bucholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415702003

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This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon the author's own previously published works, Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning and Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871, it also contains original research. The volume suggests that the General Staff was a pioneer of what became known in the twentieth century as 'operations research', establishing some of the framework for the modern economics of transportation. However, Moltke was much more than just a Prussian soldier and strategist. He was a best-selling author (travel writings, love letters), pioneer cartographer (Asia Minor, Rome, Silesia), dedicated lover and devoted husband, legislator, linguist, family leader, music lover, and spa devotee. Helmuth Von Moltke will appeal to students of military history and strategy, as well as historians of nineteenth century Germany.

The Franco-German War of 1870-71

Helmuth Graf von Moltke
The Franco German War of 1870 71 Book PDF

Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086058922

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