Hitler's Generals
In Hitler's Generals, distinguished historian Correlli Barnett has gathered together an outstanding team of military historians to write about the characters and careers of twenty-six generals of the Third Reich. The book probes the central mystery of why a generation of the world's most able commanders and staff officers came to be seduced by Hitler, and why they failed to deflect him from his disastrous decisions. Review "An expertly edited compilation of biographies of the...
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In Hitler's Generals, distinguished historian Correlli Barnett has gathered together an outstanding team of military historians to write about the characters and careers of twenty-six generals of the Third Reich. The book probes the central mystery of why a generation of the world's most able commanders and staff officers came to be seduced by Hitler, and why they failed to deflect him from his disastrous decisions.
List of IllustrationsixList of MapsxiList of ContributorsxiiiGlossaryxixIntroduction1Part IThe Anti-Nazi Generals1Fritsch, Beck and the Fuhrer192Witzleben, Stulpnagel and Speidel43Part IIThe Desk Generals3Brauchitsch754Halder1015Blomberg1296Keitel, Jodl and Warlimont139Part IIIThe Feldherren7Rundstedt1758Reichenau2099Manstein22110Kleist24911Kesselring265Part IVThe Battlefront Generals12Rommel29313Model31914Arnim33515Paulus36116Senger37517Kluge39518Dietrich and Manteuffel411Part VThe Innovators19Guderian44120Student463AppendixGerman Army Rank Structure481Index483
