'.... unpretentious... his narrative is clear and reliable, his maps are excellent... This is, in short, a good introduction to a huge and tragic subject by a very accomplished writer.'

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'.... unpretentious... his narrative is clear and reliable, his maps are excellent... This is, in short, a good introduction to a huge and tragic subject by a very accomplished writer.' (SPECTATOR )

'An incisive dual biography ... The Warlords is very readable and useful ... it is the best short book in English on German high command in World War One.' (Gary Sheffield MILITARY ILLUSTRATED )

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting high level overview, 30 April 2005

By	Steven Ford (London / Tokyo) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having bought this book hoping that it'd provide a clear analysis of the problems of civil-military control within WW1 Germany, I was slightly disappointed when it didn't go into heavy details of the actual control problems and concentrated instead largely on how Luddendorf and Hindenburg rose to power during the initial stages of WW1.

The book does begin to draw on the inevitable conflict between the civilian and military leaderships towards the end, however, in a book of only ~200 pages long, inevitably, it's not in immense depth nor detail.

However, this is not to say that the book isn't a good read (it's very readable) nor that it isn't thought provoking. It does pose several interesting questions and provides some good topics for debate. I'd recommend reading it as a case study to E. Cohen's book 'Supreme Command'.

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