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The German Generals who survived Hitler's Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and respect. For the first time, answers are revealed to many questions raised during the war. Was Hitler the genius of strategy he seemed to be at first? Why did his Generals never overthrow him? Why did Hitler allow the Dunkirk evacuation?
Current interest, of course, focuses on the German Generals' opinion of the Red Army as a fighting force. What did the Russians look like from the German side? How did we look? And what are the advantages and disadvantages under which dictator-controlled armies fight?
In vivid, non-technical language, Capt. Liddell Hart reports these interviews and evaluates the vital military lessons of World War II.
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EVERYTHING IN WAR LOOKS DIFFERENT AT THE TIME FROM WHAT it looks in the clearer light that comes after the war. Read the first page
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Liddell Hart's interviews with German generals immediately after WW II ended provides the reader with a essential perspective from inside the defeated military command. The author candidly calls Hitler "too brilliant" a strategist when criticizing the traditional Allied view that all Germany's mistakes were Hitler's and all her success were due to the German generals. Hart points out the political ineptitude of the German generals when assessing their military prowess. Politics are not divorced from military affairs in this study. The superb blend of Eisenhower's political skills and solid military judgement is contrasted with the utter failure of the German military to address political issues in the Reich. Hart lets the vanquished foes tell their own stories in an easy to read narrative form. He allows the German perspective to point out strengths and weaknesses in the British, American, and Russian militarys. An example is the German disregard of any threat of allied invasion along the French Bay of Biscay coastline because they correctly judged the Allied invasion of the European continent would never be carried out outside of the range of air cover. After Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio the Germans were able to use allied predictability against them. Hart uses this example to champion his "strategy of the indirect approach" that has become his hallmark, and surmise about what might have been if bolder leadership had prevailed in England in 1944. An easy read with some of the great minds that opposed the allies in World War II. Never pretentious or overloaded with unit designations or historical snobbery. A straight forward view from the "other side of the hill" that is presented to help the allied military and the lay reader learn from history.
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Excellent read, hugely insightful chapters into how the generals worked toward Hitler's desires, how they sometimes managed to persuade him to take differing courses of action, how they failed to curb his ambitions and ultimately how some prepared themselves for insurrection against the Hilter-state, which ultimately led to their own demise. Also, there is evidence that Hitler's machiavellian leadership included keeping virtually all but his top staff uninformed of the true course of the war, to the extent many still believed even after the war had been lost that they possessed the wonder weapons often quoted by Geobbels et al.
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Certainly a very interesting book with information directly from the lips of the great German generals of WWII. This information is available only in this book, and for that reason alone, it is clearly worth the price. However, the work is rather marred by the incessant use of this vessel by Liddell Hart to, for all intents and purposes, point his nose at the world and say, "I told you so." And whilst that may have some merit, it becomes rather annoying to see him inflate his ego by statements about his own infallibility.
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