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The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945
 
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The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945 (Paperback)

by Richard Overy (Foreword, Author), Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett (Author)
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  • Paperback: 864 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1403918120
  • ISBN-13: 978-1403918123
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 5 cm
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  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 788,032 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"It is, by its very detail, a fascinating book, and by its scope a majestic book and by its scholarship an illuminating book."--Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Sunday Times "
"No-one...can rise from" ""The Nemesis of Power" without a keen sense of the stature, quality and equipment of [Sir John] Wheeler-Bennett as a contemporary historian."--Lord Longford, "Catholic Herald"


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This volume tells the story of how the German Army, having survived the disaster of 1918, proceeded to dominate the political life of the German Republic, exercising a virtually paramount degree of power and influence by its very withdrawal from the active arena of politics: and of how, when later it was mistaken enough to play politics instead of controlling them, it began a descent which only ended in abject defeat militarily, politically and spiritually. The author reveals the extent of the responsibility of the Army for bringing the Nazi regime to power, for tolerating the infamies of that regime once it had attained power, and for not taking the measures at a time when only the Army could have taken them to remove it from power. In this second edition, a new foreword by Professor Richard Overy of King's College London, sets Wheeler-Bennett's classic text in a modern context.

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