The enemy's house divided
By: Charles de Gaulle ; translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Robert Eden.
Contributors: Eden, Robert.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Germany. Heer -- History -- World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany; Military art and science -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Strategy -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918
Description: "The Enemy's House Divided is de Gaulle's analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I. Based partly on observations made during his internment as a prisoner of war from 1916 to 1918, it can be seen as the foundation for everything he wrote in the 1920s and 1930s in the shadow of German resurgence and for much of what he said and did after the Nazi victory in June 1940.".

"To de Gaulle, the German conduct of the Great War and the debacle of 1918 was the greatest moral disaster ever to befall a modern civilized political community. He seeks to identify the internecine causes of the collapse of the German war effort in 1918 and of the subsequent dissolution of the German Empire.

His diagnosis of the profound moral crisis that unfolded in Germany during World War I points forward to 1940, for de Gaulle understood the fall of France, above all, as a moral catastrophe for the French. His first book, it is also a key document of de Gaulle's "philosophy of action," introducing his statesmanship to the world with its deliberate and studied critique of the perils of Nietzsche's philosophical initiative."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The disobedience of General von Kluck; title: The declaration of unlimited submarine warfare; title: The relations with the Allies; title: The fall of Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg; title: The debacle of the German people.