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Article: The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich von Ludendorff, forever associated with Germany's eastern-front victories early in World War L the military dictatorship that undermined the country's weak parliament, the draconian Brest-Litovsk treaty with Russia, and the collapse of German arms in the autumn of 1918, are the intended focuses of this study But Robert B. Asprey, a former Marine officer and Fulbright scholar, unfolds a panoramic retelling of the war in the European theater. Although the perspective is largely German, the duumvirate are regrettably much less at the story's center than the title and preface would lead one to expect.
Yet, while Asprey provides ...