British military historian Stone takes a fresh look at the German General Staff during the Second World War. He opens with an overview of the history of the general staff from its triumph over France ...

World War I ... Tuchman; “one could not be pulled out without moving the others.” Germany’s battle plan was drawn by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from ...

For one thing, most of them had read his books ... German General Staff seems never to have been confident of ultimate victory. The successes that appeared so staggering to the rest of the world ...

The German general staff was rapidly becoming the model for military organization around the world ... not written one of those increasingly common recent histories of war that seem to have ...

(JTA) – Former President Donald Trump wanted his military advisors to be more like “the German generals in World War II,” according to a new book about ... to Chief of Staff John Kelly ...

Covering some of the same ground as Görlitz' "History of the German General Staff," Professor Craig's study is ... Army from the Great Elector to the eve of the Second World War, the core of the book ...

German and French forces each suffered approximately 250,000 casualties, with the BEF suffering 13,000. Germany and Russia fought the Battle of Tannenberg on World War I’s Eastern Front.

For some, seeing this German book rendered by a German will ... that era are so far distant from our own, one questions the value of retelling World War I stories like this, no matter how polished ...