Fighting for the Fatherland: The Story of the German Soldier from 1648 to the Present Day
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A comprehensive history of the German fighting man.
Foreword Richard Holmes 7Introduction and Acknowledgements 11Part 1 Origins 171 Myths, Legends and History 192 Conceived in Chaos: Germany and the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 253 'For King and Fatherland': Brandenburg and Prussia, 1640-1713 334 Era of the Drill Sergeants: the Army of 'the Soldier King', 1713-1740 535 Masters of the Battlefield: the Army of Frederick the Great, 1740-1786 606 Complacency, Stagnation and Defeat, 1786-1806 867 Renaissance, Revolution and Reform, 1807-1857 98Part 2 The Golden Age 1198 Dress Rehearsals: the Wars of 1864 and 1866 1219 Anatomy of a Modern War Machine, 1866-1870 13310 Clash of Eagles: the War with France, 1870-1871 14711 Prelude to an Inferno: Mars-la-Tour, 1870 15712 The Inferno: Gravelotte-St-Privat and Sedan, 1870 17113 Total War: Unification and the Defeat of France, 1871 19314 An Imperial Hubris, 1871-1914 221Part 3 Into the Abyss 24915 A War on Two Fronts, 1914 25116 Stalemate in the West: Trench Warfare, 1915-1918 26817 The Warrior Betrayed: the Last Offensive and the Armistice, 1918 28618 The Road to Perdition, 1919-1935 29419 Rearmament, Regeneration and Matters of Conscience, 1935-1939 31720 Unleashing the Blitzkrieg, 1939-1940 32921 'Barbarossa' to 'Zitadelle': the Eastern Front, 1941-1943 34522 The Way to Armageddon, 1944-1945 359Part 4 Resurrection and Rehabilitation 36723 Cold War Warriors, 1945-1990 36924 Reunification and the Bundeswehr in the 21st Century 391Notes 406German-English Glossary 421Select Bibliography and Other Sources 426Appendices1 The Universal Soldier: fromLandsknecht to Legionnaire 4302 The Army of Frederick the Great in 1760 4403 Prussian Order of Battle, June 1866 4424 The Army of the North German Confederation in 1870 4445 The German Army 1880-1900 4466 The German Army in 1914 4487 German Rearmament (Army) 1933-1939 4498 The Bundeswehr Field Army in 1986 4539 Bundeswehr Operational Deployments 1990-2005 45510 Bundeswehr 'Structure 2010' 456Index 458
