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Article: Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942.(Book review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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DEATH OF THE WEHRMACHT: The German Campaigns of 1942, Robert M. Citino, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2007, 431 pages, $34.95.
In Death of the Wehrmacht, Robert Citino returns to a thesis he introduced two years ago in his book, The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years 'War to the Third Reich. The earlier book argued that, from the 17th century to the blitzkrieg campaigns of World War 11, German military leaders have conducted their battles and campaigns in a manner that showed a striking continuity across the centuries. From the Great Elector to Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the German "way of war" featured recklessly aggressive commanders leading ...