Fighting for the Fatherland
Subtitle: The Story of the German Soldier from 1648 to the Present Day
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: October 1, 2006
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781597970693
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Military - General; History; History - Military / War; Military; Sociology, Military; Europe - Germany; History / Military / General; Germany; Armies; Soldiers
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Richard Holmes; title: Introduction and acknowledgements; title: Part one : Origins.; title: Myths, legends and history; title: Conceived in chaos : Germany and the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; title: 'For King and Fatherland' : Brandenburg and Prussia, 1640-1713; title: Era of the drill sergeants : the army of 'the Soldier King', 1713-1740; title: Masters of the battlefield : the Army of Frederick the Great, 1740-1786; title: Complacency, stagnation and defeat, 1786-1806; title: Renaissance, revolution and reform, 1807-1857; title: Part two : The Golden Age.; title: Dress rehearsals : the wars of 1864 and 1866; title: Anatomy of a modern war machine, 1866-1870; title: Clash of eagles : the war with France, 1870-1871; title: Prelude to an inferno : Mars-la-Tour, 1870; title: The inferno : Gravelotte-St-Privat and Sedan, 1870; title: Total war : unification and the defeat of France, 1871; title: An imperial hubris, 1871-1914; title: Part three : Into the abyss.; title: A war on two fronts, 1914; title: Stalemate in the West : trench warfare, 1915-1918; title: The warrior betrayed : the last offensive and the Armistice, 1918; title: The road to perdition, 1919-1935; title: Rearmament, regeneration and matters of conscience, 1935-1939; title: Unleashing the Blitzkrieg, 1939-1940; title: 'Barbarossa' to 'Zitadelle' : the Eastern front, 1941-1943; title: The way to Armageddon, 1944-1945; title: Part four : Resurrection and rehabilitation.; title: Cold War warriors, 1945-1990; title: Reunification and the Bundeswehr in the 21st century; title: German-English glossary; title: Appendices.; title: The universal soldier : from Landsknecht to Legionnaire; title: The army of Frederick the Great in 1760; title: Prussian order of battle, June 1866; title: The army of the North German Confederation in 1870; title: The German Army 1880-1900; title: The German Army in 1914; title: German rearmament (Army) 1933-1939; title: The Bundeswehr field army in 1986; title: Bundeswehr operational deployments 1990-2005; title: Bundeswehr 'Structure 2010'