The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Military Review | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

THE GERMAN WAY OF WAR: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, Robert M. Citino, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2005, 428 pages, $34.95.

Robert M. Citino's The German Way of War is yet another book that analyzes the Prussian-German culture and military art of war through the ages. What makes this book different is that Citino lays out a solid argument that the German way of war was consistent over a long period of time, from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic Wars, through the rest of the 19th century under Moltke's art of war, and finally through World Wars ...

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