The German Army 1933-45

 

In this full-length, analytical study of the German Army of 1933 to 1945 Albert Seaton shows how the 1933 100,000 man Reichsheer had been intended by von Seeckt to be a 1914 Imperial Army in miniature, and how it formed too narrow a basis on which to build the German Army of the future: and he describes how the new army, thrown together with such feverish haste in the few years immediately before the Second Wodd War, broke completely with the past, so that, in the end, it owed to the Reichsheer little but its pattern of infantry and its general staff. From 1938 onwards it was Hitler's army, which he at first prized and then despised. The author traces the rise and the fall of the German Army through these momentous years with great clarity, providing an account that will be of interest to the general reader and the specialist alike. The result of ten years' extensive research, the sources of which include many unpublished files and war diaries.

Albert Seaton
Hardcover with d/w 310 pages Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1982 1st Ed

Vg/Vg

Book Code:  SA0104