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Moltke on the Art of War

Author : Daniel Hughes
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307538516
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Moltke on the Art of War written by Daniel Hughes and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke is best known for his direction of the German/Prussian campaigns against Austria in 1866 and France in 1870-71, yet it was during his service as chief of the General Staff that he laid the foundation for the German way of war which would continue through 1945. Professor Daniel Hughes of the Air War College, in addition to editing and assisting with the translation of this selection of Moltke’s thoughts and theories on the art of war, has written an insightful commentary on “Moltke the Elder” that places him in the broader context of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s sometimes abstract philosophical ideas. The book also contains an extensive bibliographic and historiographic commentary that includes references to Moltke and his theories in the current literature in Germany, England, and the United States—a valuable aid to anyone doing research on the subject. This volume, in addition to its appeal to scholars, serves as an introduction to the theory of the German army, as well as a summary of Moltke’s enduring theoretical legacy. Praise for Moltke on the Art of War “Moltke molded the Prussian and ultimately the German army at a time of technological and economic change. For that reason . . . this book deserves a much wider audience than those interested in nineteenth-century military history. Readers will be particularly grateful for the editor’s careful explanation of terms that are easily mistranslated in English, and for concise and useful footnotes and bibliography. A model of fine editing.”—Foreign Affairs Magazine “This valuable work ably compiles the selected writings on the art of war of one of military history’s greatest geniuses. [Moltke’s] impact on American military thinking persists, especially in various military staff college curricula. Strongly recommended.”—Armed Forces Journal “A thoughtfully edited, well-translated anthology that merits a place in any serious collection on the craft of war in the modern Western world."—Journal of Military History

Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45

Author : Helmuth Caspar von Moltke
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373815
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45 written by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and coconspirator of Helmuth and his wife, Freya. From Helmuth’s arrival at Tegel in late September 1944 until the day of his execution by the Nazis on January 23, 1945, Poelchau would carry Helmuth’s and Freya’s letters in and out of prison daily, risking his own life. Freya would safeguard these letters for the rest of her long life. Last Letters is a profoundly personal record of the couple’s fortitude in the face of fascism.

Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War

Author : Annika Mombauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521791014
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War written by Annika Mombauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the influence of German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke, 1906-1914.

The Moltke Myth

Author : Terence Zuber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moltke Myth written by Terence Zuber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Moltke Myth is author Terence Zuber's groundbreaking book on Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, the chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years. Often referred to as Moltke the Elder, he is portrayed today as the nearly-infallible victor of the Prussian wars in 1864 against Denmark, in 1866 against Austria, and in 1871 against France. Moltke the Elder is known as a brilliant, innovative planner and master of the battlefield. The Moltke Myth shows that this "common knowledge" is based solely on hero-worship and simplistic generalizations." "Zuber, a career infantry officer, subjects Moltke's plans and orders to a militarily professional analysis. He asserts a new premise that Moltke was a normal human being who made grave errors like systematically failing to use cavalry reconnaissance and never knowing the location of his enemy. Zuber presents the true story about how realistic peacetime training and tactical excellence in combat helped the Prussian army win battles. The Moltke Myth offers stimulating new perspectives on tactics and strategy in the Wars of German Unification."--BOOK JACKET.

No Place Like Home

Author : Johannes von Moltke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938595
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book No Place Like Home written by Johannes von Moltke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity.

Letters to Freya, 1939-1945

Author : Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Freya, 1939-1945 written by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moltke's Tactical Problems from 1858-1882

Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Moltke's Tactical Problems from 1858-1882 written by Helmuth Graf von Moltke and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Light for the New Millennium

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
ISBN 13 : 1855844001
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Light for the New Millennium written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing a wealth of material on a variety of subjects, Light for the New Millennium tells the story of the meeting of two great men and their continuing relationship beyond the threshold of death: Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)--the seer, scientist of the spirit, and cultural innovator--and Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916)--a renowned military man, Chief of the General Staff of the German army during the outbreak of World War I. In 1914, following disagreements with the Kaiser, Moltke was dismissed from his post. This led to a great inner crisis in the General, that in turn drew him closer to Steiner. When Moltke died two years later, Steiner maintained contact with his excarnated soul, receiving communications that he passed on to Moltke's wife, Eliza. These remarkable and unique messages are reproduced here in full, together with relevant letters from the General to his wife. The various additional commentaries, essays and documents give insights to themes of continuing significance for our time, including the workings of evil; karma and reincarnation; life after death; the new millennium and the end of the last century; the hidden causes of World War I; the destiny of Europe, and the future of Rudolf Steiner's science of the spirit. Also included are Moltke's private reflections on the causes of the Great War ("the document that could have changed world history"), a key interview with Steiner for Le Matin, an introduction and notes by T. H. Meyer, and studies by Jürgen von Grone, Jens Heisterkamp and Johannes Tautz.

Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning

Author : Arden Bucholz
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780854968992
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning written by Arden Bucholz and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Resistance to Hitler

Author : Ger van Roon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book German Resistance to Hitler written by Ger van Roon and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Myth and Reality of German Warfare

Author : Gerhard P. Gross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813168392
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Myth and Reality of German Warfare written by Gerhard P. Gross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of warfare dominated military theory and practice, creating a myth of German operational brilliance that lingers today, despite the nation's crushing defeats in two world wars. In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid--nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history, including Moltke the Elder, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Erich Ludendorff. Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.

Strategy; Its Theory and Application

Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Strategy; Its Theory and Application written by Helmuth Graf von Moltke and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These works provide many clues to the military thought of this renowned Chief of the Prussian General Staff as he sought to apply new weapons to tactics and to give new dimensions to strategy. The books are essential to an understanding of Prussian strategy in 1866 and 1870, and of German military doctrine on the eve of World War I.

Moltke: His Life and Character

Author : Field Marshal Graf Helmuth von Moltke
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787203646
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Moltke: His Life and Character written by Field Marshal Graf Helmuth von Moltke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1892, this is a memoir of German Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke (the Elder), chief of staff of the Prussian Army for 30 years, compiled from numerous personal journals, letters, and notes. It also draws on his father’s memoirs and one of Moltke’s tales, “The Two Friends.” Richly illustrated throughout with drawings by Moltke, portraits and facsimile letters. “THE nature of the subject of this volume rendered it impossible that the contents should appear as if cast in one mould. This circumstance might be regarded as a defect, but its justification will be found partly in the many-sided character of a long and eventful life, which showed a rich development and a mature perfection of every human faculty, and partly in the fact that for some periods of this life original authorities were lacking. The volume is therefore intended, as was inevitable, to produce its effect by the impression it makes as a whole. Our knowledge of the Field-Marshal must be supplemented from notes regarding his family and his own life, from journals of travels, and records of the many impulses, scientific and artistic, to which his travels gave rise; further, from an attempt in the region of Belles Lettres—the novel of “The Two Friends,” in which he, the man of eight-and-twenty, paints himself true to the life; finally, from the vigorous productions of his old age, with their strivings after the highest truth, which, under the title of “Consolatory Thoughts,” form the conclusion of the volume.”- Editor’s Note

Culture in the Anteroom

Author : Johannes von Moltke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028154
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Culture in the Anteroom written by Johannes von Moltke and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology---including pieces from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schlüpmann---brings together literary and film scholars, historians and art historians, sociologists, and architects to address the scope and current relevance of a body of work dedicated to investigating all aspects of modernism and modernity. The contributors approach Kracauer's writings from a variety of angles, some by placing them in dialogue with his contemporaries in Weimar Germany and the New York Intellectuals of the 1940s and '50s; others by exploring relatively unknown facets of Kracauer's oeuvre by considering his contributions to architectural history, the history of radio as well as other new media, and museum and exhibition culture.

The Franco-German War of 1870-71

Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Franco-German War of 1870-71 written by Helmuth Graf von Moltke and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road to Königgrätz

Author : Quintin Barry
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781909384965
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Königgrätz written by Quintin Barry and published by Helion. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before the War of 1866 the name Helmuth von Moltke was scarcely known outside the Prussian army ... This book follows Moltke's part in the course of the campaign at the end of which his name had become a household word. It traces his rise to the position of Chief of the General Staff, against the background of the political situation of Prussia in the middle of the 19th Century, and the way in which he developed the functions of the General Staff."--Inside cover

The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914

Author : Dennis Showalter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674620
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914 written by Dennis Showalter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals. Germany's overall failure in the first year of World War I was surprising and remains a frequent subject of analysis, mostly focused on deficiencies in strategy and policy. But there were institutional weaknesses as well. This book examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war's crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. Too much routine in planning, command and execution led to groupthink, inflexibility and to an overconfident belief that nothing could go too terribly wrong. As a result, decisive operation became dicey, with consequences that Germany's military could not overcome in four long years.