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Author: Dennis Showalter Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476674620 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals. Germany's overall failure in the first year of World War I was surprising and remains a frequent subject of analysis, mostly focused on deficiencies in strategy and policy. But there were institutional weaknesses as well. This book examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war's crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. Too much routine in planning, command and execution led to groupthink, inflexibility and to an overconfident belief that nothing could go too terribly wrong. As a result, decisive operation became dicey, with consequences that Germany's military could not overcome in four long years.
Author: Dennis Showalter Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476674620 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals. Germany's overall failure in the first year of World War I was surprising and remains a frequent subject of analysis, mostly focused on deficiencies in strategy and policy. But there were institutional weaknesses as well. This book examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war's crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. Too much routine in planning, command and execution led to groupthink, inflexibility and to an overconfident belief that nothing could go too terribly wrong. As a result, decisive operation became dicey, with consequences that Germany's military could not overcome in four long years.
Author: Jeff Lipkes Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9058675963 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 817
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"People screamed, cried, and groaned. Above the tumult I could distinguish the voices of small children. All this time the soldiers were singing.... Sometime after the first salvo, there was another round of fire and, once again, I was not hit. After this I heard fewer cries, save from time to time a small child calling its mother."?Félix Bourdon, survivor of a mass execution in Dinant, BelgiumIn August 1914, without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 Belgian noncombatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other buildings. Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liége, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Accounts of the killing, looting, and arson have long been dismissed as "atrocity propaganda," particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Rehearsals examines the campaign by revisionists that led to voluminous and compelling testimony about German war crimes being discredited.Recently, the case has been made that the violence that came to a peak between August 19 and August 26, 1914, was the result of a spontaneous outbreak of German paranoia about civilian sharpshooters. In Rehearsals, Jeff Lipkes offers compelling evidence that the executions were in fact part of a deliberate campaign of terrorism ordered by military authorities. In his shocking account of events that have been largely overlooked by historians of World War I, Lipkes commemorates the heroism as well as the suffering of the Belgian victims of German aggression.
Author: Larry Zuckerman Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 9780814797044 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 476
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The author presents a compelling and untold story of Germany's occupation of Belgium after WW1. It's a great, trade history book from a wonderful storyteller.
Author: Werner Warmbrunn Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
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Describes German administration which used the 'velvet glove" to exploit Belgian industry and work force, but nonetheless authorized shooting of hostages and deportation of Jews.
Author: L. Mokveld Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
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"The German Fury in Belgium" is a book that focuses on the experiences of a Netherland journalist during a four-month stay with the German soldiers in Belgium. L. Mokveld, a Dutch journalist reiterates the things he saw during his time with the German army with an admirable piece of war correspondence that is trustworthy and undoubtedly. A piece of work for people who want to learn about the unique nature of the German army in the face of war and how they deal with their enemies in the light of resistance.
Author: Dennis Showalter
Author: Dennis Showalter
Author: Jeff Lipkes
Author: Lodewijk Hermen Grondijs
Author: Brand Whitlock
Author: Ödön Halasi
Author: Larry Zuckerman
Author: Werner Warmbrunn
Author: Jean Baptiste de Ville
Author: Arnold J. Toynbee
Author: L. Mokveld