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Article: The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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The Creation of the Modern German Army" General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930. By William Mulligan. (New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. 246. $70.00.)
General Walther Reinhardt's important role during the period of the founding and formative years of the Weimar Republic has not received the attention it deserves. The author of this book provides an in-depth study of the general and his crucial contributions to the republic. William Mulligan enables the reader to gain a sense of the man and a new perspective on many of the complex issues that roiled the early Weimar years. Because it assumes knowledge of Weimar history, it is primarily ...