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"After Germany’s humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country’s brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer’s erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany’s fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler’s tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler’s thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy"--
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Campaigns, Strategy, Military leadership, World War, 1939-1945, History, Hitler, adolf, 1889-1945, Heads of state, Germany, biography, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, germany, Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945, Biography, Politics and governmentPeople
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First Soldier: Hitler as military leader
2018, Yale University Press
in English
0300205988 9780300205985
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