LUDENDORFF'S OWN STORY August 1914 - November 1918. The Great War from the Siege of Liege to the Signing of the Armistice as Viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army

Ludendorff Erich Von

Edité par New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1919

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2 volumes. First Edition. With frontispiece illustrations, many maps and charts throughout the text and large multi-location, multi-folding maps in pockets at the end of each volume. 8vo, publisher's original red cloth lettered in gilt within gilt frames on the spines and upper covers. [xii], 477; [vi], 473 pp. A very good set, the text-blocks clean and very well preserved, the bindings strong and quite pleasing with very little wear, gilt to the covers bright, the gilt to the spines mellowed as would be expected, Vol. II a bit shaken but still strong. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT MEMOIR OF WORLD WAR I BY THE GENERAL WHO WITH VON HINDENBURG LED THE GERMAN FORCES FROM AUGUST 1916 UNTIL THE ARMISTICE AT THE END OF THE WAR. As Ludendorff writes in his Preface to the work: "It has been my destiny to hold various high appointments. Upon Field-Marshal von Hinddenburg and myself, in conjunction with other men, devolved the task of conducting the defense of the Fatherland. In these pages I propose to give an account of those deeds of the German people and their army with which my name will for all time be associated. I shall tell of my strivings and all that I lived through in this struggle of the nations---how the German people fought as men have never fought before, how they endured and how their efforts were gradually paralyzed. Germany has not yet had time for introspection and heart-searching. She is too heavily weighted down. And yet she can take heart from the magnificent deeds of her army, and from all they, too, accomplished who worked at home. But if she wishes to learn anything from the succession of events which culminated in her undoing she has no time to lose, for the world's history strides ruthlessly on and tramples underfoot those nations who tear themselves to pieces by internal conflict." Ludendorff, German general and politician, achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the German General Staff in 1916, Ludendorff became Germany's chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship until the country's defeat in 1918. Later during the years of the Weimar Republic, he took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and Adolf Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, thereby contributing significantly to the Nazis' rise to power. Barbara Tuchman characterizes Ludendorff in her book The Guns of August as a glutton for work and a man of granite character but who was deliberately friendless and forbidding and therefore remained little known or liked. It is true that as his wife testified, "Anyone who knows Ludendorff knows that he has not a spark of humor.". He was voluble nonetheless, although he shunned small talk. John Lee states that while Ludendorff was with his Fusiliers, "he became the perfect regimental commander . the younger officers came to adore him." His adjutant, Wilhelm Breucker, became a devoted lifelong friend. Ludendorff, M. My Married Life; Lee, John, The Warlords After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader and a promoter of the stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that Germany's defeat and the settlement reached at Versailles were the result of a treasonous conspiracy by Marxists, Freemasons and Jews. He also took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and 1923 Beer Hall Putsch before unsuccessfully standing in the 1925 election for president. Wiki.

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• Titre: LUDENDORFF'S OWN STORY August 1914 - November 1918. The Great War from the Siege of Liege to the Signing of the Armistice as Viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army
• Éditeur: New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1919
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale