description: Ludendorff's 1918-1919 account of "those deeds of the German people and their army with which my name will for all time be associated," detailing the campaigns in which he participated as Chief of the General Staff at Tannenberg, Poland, and Kovno, and in his position as the first Quartermaster-General of the German Army. The book presents essential material on how and why the Germans continued to prosecute the war, and, especially in the second volume, what happened on the battlefields in 1917 and 1918. Reprint of the 1919 publication. 2006: 477 + 480 pages, softcover. Index, illustrations. Softcover. 2 Volumes in 1. (Scholar's Bookshelf)
language: German
title: Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918: The Great War from the Siege of Liege to the Signing of the Armistice as Viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army
titlecomplete: Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918: The Great War from the Siege of Liege to the Signing of the Armistice as Viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army
characters: William II, German Emperor, Max Hoffmann, Ottokar Czernin, Paul von Hintze, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, Otto von Emmich, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Max of Baden, Leon Trotsky, Georg Michaelis, August von Mackensen, Erich Ludendorff, Leopold of Bavaria, Paul von Hindenburg
genres: Memoir, History, World War I
ratings_count: 18
places: Liège, Russia, Poland, Brest, Belarus, Kaunas, Eastern Front, Belgium, Chernyakhovsk, Belarus, Verdun, Bad Kreuznach, Arras, Poznan, Lithuania, Spa, Eastern Europe, Olsztyn, Pszczyna, Germany, Western Front
publisher: Ayer Co Pub