The First Nazi: Erich Ludendorff: The Man Who Made Hitler Possible - Couverture rigide

Brownell, Will; Drace-Brownell, Denise; Rovt, Alex

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ISBN 10 : 0715651048 ISBN 13 : 9780715651049

Editeur : Overlook Press, 2016

Synopsis

General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, is one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, Ludendorff dominated not only his superior-General Paul von Hindenburg-but also Germany's head of state, Kaiser Wilhelm II. For years, Ludendorff was the military dictator of Germany. Ludendorff not only dictated all aspects of World War I, he refused all opportunities to make peace; he antagonized the Americans until they declared war; he sent Lenin into Russia to forge a revolution in order to shut down the Russian front; and then he pushed for total military victory in 1918, in a rabid slaughter known as "The Ludendorff Offensive." Shortly after losing the War in 1918, Ludendorff created the murderous legend that Germany had lost this war only because Jews had conspired on the home front. He soon forged an alliance with Hitler, endorsed the Nazis, and wrote maniacally about how Germans needed a new world war, to redeem the Fatherland. This savage man had staggering designs to build a gigantic state that would dwarf even the British Empire. Simply stated, he wanted the world.Ludendorff was the key German, instrumental in both world wars and the Russian Revolution. He changed the 20th century beyond recognition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Will Brownell, Ph.D. served as a translator and interpreter for the US Army and State Department. He was educated at Exeter, Cornell, Columbia, plus the Universities of Madrid and Paris. An expert in European military history, he is the author of So Close to Greatness, the biography of Ambassador William C. Bullitt, the first US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He lives in New York. Denise Drace-Brownell is a technologist, inventor, and international business executive. She was educated at Columbia and Rutgers, as well as the Universities of Pennsylvania and Illinois. She lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Overlook Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0715651048
• ISBN 13: 9780715651049
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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