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Author : Wilhelm Deist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010343914
Author : Volker R. Berghahn,Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000007367
Originally published in 1981 and now re-issued with a new Preface, this book contains contributions on key issues such as the origins of the First World War, the psychological impact of that war on the Germans, the enigmatic personality of Walter Rathenau, anti-semitism and paramilitarism, as well as German Ostpolitik during the Weimar period. The collapse of the Weimar Republic is re-examined and this is followed by an analysis of the social basis of the SS leadership corps, German reactions to the defeat in 1945 as observed by the British authorities and finally a wide-ranging comparatiste essay on why Germany did not experience a 20th century revolution in spite of the tremendous upheavals it suffered.
Author : Matthias Strohn
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612006024
This anthology of historical war studies looks at military expansion from the French Revolution to WWII—and the enduring lessons for today. In the years after the Cold War, many governments sought to reduce the sizes of their armed forces. Along with this general reduction came a shift in military doctrine away from conventional warfare and toward counterinsurgency operations. But in light of new geopolitical developments, the pendulum is swinging back. Once again, armies are growing in size. Now is the time to look back at the age of total war and the hard-won military lessons about the buildup, composition and use of large formations. It is these lessons from history that this book addresses. What does history tell us about military expansion? How did armies prepare and train for a major conflict in times of peace? How did the armies ensure that the doctrine and training used in a small army was adequate for a drastically enlarged army in the case of total war? All these questions were as relevant then as they are now. This anthology analyzes a number of case studies and provides insights into themes and topics that characterized the so-called ‘reconstitution’ of armies in their historical and social contexts.
Author : Herman Amersfoort,Wim Klinkert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004203211
In the period 1900-1940 the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland reacted in divergent ways to the same foreign military threats. This volume argues that their internal politics and politico-military strategic culture are vital keys to understanding those differences.
Author : Volker Rolf Berghahn,Martin Kitchen
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; New York : Barnes & Noble
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Germany
ISBN : OSU:32435003446739
Essays in honor of Francis Ludwig Carsten.
Author : Herman Amersfoort,Wim Klinkert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004204331
In the period 1900-1940 the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland reacted in divergent ways to the same foreign military threats. This volume argues that their internal politics and politico-military strategic culture are vital keys to understanding those differences.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442207004
What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain--the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In The Age of Total War, celebrated historian Jeremy Black explores the rise and demise of an era of total war, which he defines in terms of the intensity of the struggle, the range (geographical and/or chronological) of conflict, the nature of the goals, and the extent to which civil society was involved. He contends that this era (roughly 1860-1945) was markedly different from the warfare that characterized earlier periods, and that it is very different from the situation that has evolved since, with its emphasis on asymmetrical conflict and limited warfare. Acknowledging that various definitions are problematic and often contradictory, Black argues that 1860 to 1945 was an era in which the prospect of war and the consequences of it were crucially important for human history. He focuses primarily on conflict between Western powers, including Japanese participation in the Russo-Japanese War. Trends and developments subsequent to 1945 have combined, Black asserts, to make a return to total war unlikely.
Author : Manfred F. Boemeke,Roger Chickering,Stig Förster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521622948
The essays in Anticipating Total War explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914. The concept of "total war" provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups, and educators on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these "anticipations of total war," virtually no one realized the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century.
Author : Anna C. Bramwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000459579
This book, first published in 1988, charts society’s responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War. At the close of the war large areas of Europe lay in ruins, and large numbers of refugees faced upheaval and famine. Political considerations influenced the decisions as to who received assistance, and refugees were forcibly repatriated or resettled – and in the analysis of these matters and more, both the refugee crises of the 1940s and their relevance today are highlighted.
Author : Roger Chickering,Stig Förster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521773520
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
Author : Nándor F. Dreisziger
Publisher : East European Monographs
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073091162
This volume's sixteen essays and documentary section are devoted to an analysis and assessment of the Age of Total War's significance in Hungarian history. Distinguished scholars of several generations whose specialties range across Hungary's political, military, cultural and diplomatic histories have contributed to this most comprehensive understanding of the tumultuous events of 1938-1948, the period many rightly regard a "fateful decade" in Hungary and eastern Europe.
Author : Eric Dorn Brose
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195179453
During the period 1870-1918, the German army's view that man was better than machine was challenged by the development and use of machine guns, airplanes and weapons of destruction. This book examines the effects of mechanisation on the Germany army.
Author : John Buckley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135362768
Warfare in the first half of the 20th century was fundamentally and irrovocably altered by the birth and subsequent development of air power. This work assesses the role of air power in changing the face of battle on land and sea. Utilizing late-1990s research, the author demonstrates that the phenomenon of air power was both a cause and a crucial accelerating factor contributing to the theory and practice of total war. For instance, the expansion of warfare to the homefront was a direct result of bombing and indirectly due to the extent of national economic mobilization required to support first rate air power status. In addition, the move away from the principle of total war with the onset of the Cold War and the replacement of air power by ICBMs is thoroughly examined. This work should provide students of international history, war studies, defence and strategic studies with an insight into 20th-century warfare.
Author : Isabel V. Hull
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467080
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures of this distinctively German military culture that the Army, in its drive to annihilate the enemy military, did not shrink from the utter destruction of civilian property and lives. Carried to its extreme, the logic of "military necessity" found real security only in extremities of destruction, in the "silence of the graveyard."Hull begins with a dramatic account, based on fresh archival work, of the German Army's slide from administrative murder to genocide in German Southwest Africa (1904–7). The author then moves back to 1870 and the war that inaugurated the Imperial era in German history, and analyzes the genesis and nature of this specifically German military culture and its operations in colonial warfare. In the First World War the routines perfected in the colonies were visited upon European populations. Hull focuses on one set of cases (Belgium and northern France) in which the transition to total destruction was checked (if barely) and on another (Armenia) in which "military necessity" caused Germany to accept its ally's genocidal policies even after these became militarily counterproductive. She then turns to the Endkampf (1918), the German General Staff's plan to achieve victory in the Great War even if the homeland were destroyed in the process—a seemingly insane campaign that completes the logic of this deeply institutionalized set of military routines and practices. Hull concludes by speculating on the role of this distinctive military culture in National Socialism's military and racial policies.Absolute Destruction has serious implications for the nature of warmaking in any modern power. At its heart is a warning about the blindness of bureaucratic routines, especially when those bureaucracies command the instruments of mass death.
Author : David Welch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813527988
Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in the First World War, declaring that Germany had failed to recognize propaganda as a weapon of the first order. This despite the fact that propaganda had been regarded, arguably for the first time, as an intrinsic part of the war effort. David Welch has written the first book to fully examine German society -- politics, propaganda, public opinion, and total war -- in the Great War. Drawing on a wide range of sources -- from posters, newspapers, journals, film, parliamentary debates, police and military reports, and private papers -- Welch argues that the moral collapse of Germany was due less to the failure to disseminate propaganda than to the inability of the military authorities and the Kaiser to reinforce this propaganda, and to acknowledge the importance of public opinion in forging an effective link between leadership and the people.