1989, ISBN: 9780812824681

New York 1978, Stein & Day, US First edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, VG/VG condition, x, 598 pages, illus, maps, noted, bibliog, index. ------------… More...

New York 1978, Stein & Day, US First edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, VG/VG condition, x, 598 pages, illus, maps, noted, bibliog, index. -------------------------------------------------------------------No armed force has ever presented us with such a tangle of truths, half-truths, and myths as have traditional political and military analyses of the German Army of Hitler's Third Reich. No other army since Napoleon's Grand Armee has begun a war with such resounding conquests, and ended it in such total defeat. And no other force has had to endure such a disastrous relationship with its head of state and commander-in-chief.Why, after so many startling successes was the German Army beaten so completely? Here, for the general reader and the specialist, are novel conclusions based upon a detailed portrayal of the political relations between Hitler and the Army from 1938 to 1989; an analysis of the strategic basis of the Army until 1939; a description of the political and military developments in the years of victory, covering the campaigns in Poland, Norway, western Europe, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union until early 1942; an examination of the years of defeat, showing how the German Army failed to gain victory in the Mediterranean, the east and the west, and how Hitler gained final total control over its operations.The author rejects the idea that Hitler was anything but a complete liability to the army he led, and Mr. Cooper contends that Blitzkrieg was a myth-that the German Army deliberately pursued a form of war that was directly contradictory to the revolutionary principles of the so-called "lightning war., 0<

1989, ISBN: 9780812824681

New York 1978, Stein & Day, US First edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, VG/VG condition, x, 598 pages, illus, maps, noted, bibliog, index. ------------… More...

New York 1978, Stein & Day, US First edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, VG/VG condition, x, 598 pages, illus, maps, noted, bibliog, index. -------------------------------------------------------------------No armed force has ever presented us with such a tangle of truths, half-truths, and myths as have traditional political and military analyses of the German Army of Hitler's Third Reich. No other army since Napoleon's Grand Armee has begun a war with such resounding conquests, and ended it in such total defeat. And no other force has had to endure such a disastrous relationship with its head of state and commander-in-chief.Why, after so many startling successes was the German Army beaten so completely? Here, for the general reader and the specialist, are novel conclusions based upon a detailed portrayal of the political relations between Hitler and the Army from 1938 to 1989; an analysis of the strategic basis of the Army until 1939; a description of the political and military developments in the years of victory, covering the campaigns in Poland, Norway, western Europe, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union until early 1942; an examination of the years of defeat, showing how the German Army failed to gain victory in the Mediterranean, the east and the west, and how Hitler gained final total control over its operations.The author rejects the idea that Hitler was anything but a complete liability to the army he led, and Mr. Cooper contends that Blitzkrieg was a myth-that the German Army deliberately pursued a form of war that was directly contradictory to the revolutionary principles of the so-called "lightning war.<