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Mosier, John

 
9780805075779: Cross of Iron
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ISBN 10: 0805075771 ISBN 13: 9780805075779
Editorial: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2006

Sinopsis

Acclaimed for his revisionist history of the German Army in World War I, John Mosier continues his pioneering work in "Cross of Iron", offering an intimate portrait of the twentieth-century German army from its inception, through World War I and the interwar years, to World War II and its climax in 1945. World War I has inspired a vast mythology of bravery and carnage, told largely by the victors, that has fascinated readers for decades. Many have come to believe that the fast ascendancy of the Allied army, matched by the failure of a German army shackled by its rigidity, led to the war's outcome. Mosier demystifies the strategic and tactical realities to explain that it was Germany's military culture that provided it with the advantage in the first war. Likewise, "Cross of Iron" offers stunning revelations regarding the weapons of World War II, forcing a re-evaluation of the reasons behind the French withdrawal, the Russian contribution, and Hitler as military thinker. Mosier lays to rest the notion that the army, as opposed to the SS, fought a clean and traditional war. Finally, he demonstrates how the German war machine succeeded against more powerful Allied armies until, in both wars, it was crushed by U.S. intervention. The result of thirty years of primary research, "Cross of Iron" is a powerful and authoritative reinterpretation of Germany at war.

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Acerca del autor

A former film critic and member of the Camera d'Or jury at the Cannes Film
Festival, John Mosier is currently a professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans. His background as a military historian dates from his role in developing an interdisciplinary curriculum for the study of the two world wars in 1969, a program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of The Blitzkrieg Myth and The Myth of the Great War and lives in Jefferson, Louisiana.

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Editorial
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0805075771
ISBN 13 
9780805075779
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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