The German Army League

Author : Marilyn Shevin Coetzee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195362930

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The German Army League by Marilyn Shevin Coetzee Pdf

This book traces the development of the German Army League from its inception through the earliest days of the Weimar Republic. Founded in January 1912, the League promoted the intensification of German militarism and the cultivation of German nationalism. As the last and second largest of the patriotic societies to emerge after 1890, the League led the campaign for army expansion in 1912 and 1913, and against the growing influence of socialism and pacifism within Germany. Attempting to harness popular and nationalist sentiment against the government's foreign and domestic policies by preying on Germans' fears of defeat and socialism, the League contributed to the polarization of German society and aggravated the international tensions which culminated in the Great War. Coetzee combines an analysis of the League's principal personalities and policies with an exploration of the inner workings of local and regional branches, arguing that rather than having served solely as a barometer of populist nationalist sentiment, the League also reflected the machinations of men of education and prominence who believed that an unresponsive German government had stifled their own careers, dealt ineffectually with the prospect of domestic unrest, and squandered the nation's military superiority over its European rivals.

Author : Douglas Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191286651X

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The Army of the Swabian League 1525 by Douglas Miller Pdf

The Swabian League was established as a defensive alliance of princes, prelates, and Imperial cities to maintain the peace within the territory of Southern Germany. In 1525 the League faced an existential threat in the form of an attempt by the exiled Duke Ulrich of Württemberg to retake his territory and a series of localised peasant uprisings which united into a movement for political reform. The League was forced to mobilise a mercenary armyat a time of financial crisis and a shortage of Landsknechts, many of whom were fighting in the Italian Wars. This book presents a detailed inside account of the different components and internal organisation of the League army. It focuses on two campaigns led by its supreme commander, Georg Truchsess von Waldburg, to maintain discipline during an intensive six-month campaign to thwart the Duke of Württemberg and smash the peasant rebellion whilst attempting to appease his political overlords within the League.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786725298

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The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson Pdf

In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naïve assumptions of German aims—and England's entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces.That the war was wicked, horrific, inhuman,is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. More British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War; indeed, the total British fatalities in that single battle—some 420,000—exceeds the entire American fatalities for both World Wars. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with enthusiasm. Ferguson vividly brings back to life this terrifying period, not through dry citation of chronological chapter and verse but through a series of brilliant chapters focusing on key ways in which we now view the First World War.For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them, and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper nor more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.

Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907

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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 by G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries Pdf

Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.

Author : Earl Ziemke
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899778

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German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 [Illustrated Edition] by Earl Ziemke Pdf

[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.

Author : John H. E. Fried
Publisher : New York, Macmillan
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015027254542

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The Guilt of the German Army by John H. E. Fried Pdf

Author : Isabel Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825658

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Unlikely Diplomats by Isabel Campbell Pdf

In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented personnel policies that permanently changed the distribution of the defence budget and the character of the Canadian Army. This original account of the evolution of the Canadian Army from a small training cadre to a truly national force offers a new perspective on military policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782007814

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Forces of the Hanseatic League by David Nicolle Pdf

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield. The League was formed to protect the economic and political interests of member cities throughout a vast and complex trading network. The League continued to operate well into the 17th century, but its golden age was between c.1200 and c.1500; thereafter it failed to take full advantage of the wave of maritime exploration to the west, south and east of Europe. During its 300 years of dominance the League's large ships – called 'cogs' – were at the forefront of maritime technology, were early users of cannon, and were manned by strong fighting crews to defend them from pirates in both open-sea and river warfare. The home cities raised their own armies for mutual defence, and their riches both allowed them, and required them, to invest in fortifications and gunpowder weapons, since as very attractive targets they were subjected to sieges at various times.

Author : League of Nations. Secretariat. Information Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : International law
ISBN : UFL:31262100718393

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Monthly Summary of the League of Nations by League of Nations. Secretariat. Information Section Pdf

Author : World peace foundation, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Arbitration, International
ISBN : PSU:000052887772

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League of Nations by World peace foundation, Boston Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Conference on the Limitation of Armament
ISBN : UOM:39015065228739

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Yearbook of the League of Nations by Anonim Pdf

The 2nd yearbook includes "the complete story of the Washington conference, with the complete texts of the treaties and agreements."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017464806

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Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Germanic philology
ISBN : UOM:39015051851957

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Germanic Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fritz Redlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015005972693

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The German Military Enterpriser and His Work Force by Fritz Redlich Pdf

no.39: Redlich, Fritz. De praeda militari. Looting and booty, 1500-1815. (1956)

Author : Jeffrey R. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067695158

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A People's War by Jeffrey R. Smith Pdf

This project explores the manner in which one form of political legitimacy came to overtake another, the enfranchisement of the Volk at the expense of monarchy during World War I Germany. The project begins with the "festive year" 1913, when the Wilhelmine regime celebrated the centennial of the Wars of Liberation as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's Silver Jubilee. In these ceremonies the monarchy attempted to legitimize itself before the German public, but failed to achieve broad, popular participation. The study then shifts to the nationalist demonstrations of July-August 1914, their problematic relationship to the police, and the regime that ultimately came to fear these aggressive and spontaneous patriotic displays. Not only does the kaiser never engage the crowds, but he emerges as a distant and shadowy figure when juxtaposed to these vibrant throngs. The project then investigates the persistent translation of the war from an official to a popular version beginning in August 1914, which the government was unable to shape, direct, or control. These popular manifestations of the war included the interactions of rumors and crowds, celebrations of new wartime heroes independent of the kaiser, and new forms of popular mobilization that contributed to the ultimate collapse of the Wilhelmine monarchy in November 1918.