Germany and the next war
By: by General Friedrich von Bernhardi, translated by Allen H. Powles.
Contributors: Powles, Allen H., translator.
Edition: Popular ed.
Publisher: E. Arnold
Published: 1914
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Germany. Heer; Germany. Kriegsmarine; Imaginary wars and battles; Germany -- Foreign relations
Description: Brilliant and bellicose book on the divine nature of warfare and the proper place of Germany in the modern world by a leading Prussian militarist. Bernhardi viewed war as "a biological necessity" based upon "the natural law ... the law of the struggle for existence." Originally published in 1911, the book influenced German military thinking in both World War I and World War II.