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"Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500" by Peter H. Wilson challenges the notion that the Prussian/German army and its method of waging war are a model for other nations. Wilson argues that a Prussia-centric view of German military history is incomplete and misleading, emphasizing the historical importance of the Hapsburg Empire, Switzerland, and the Holy Roman Empire. He rejects the idea of a uniquely German "way of war" and highlights the influence of France on German military thought. Wilson's research is extensive, but the book may be overwhelming with its immense detail and occasional errors. Overall, it offers a fresh perspective on German history by using detailed evidence to compare and illuminate the past. [Extracted from the article]

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The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944: by David A. Harrisville (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021), 309 pages Some of the soldiers he investigated believed the war to be an opportunity to destroy atheistic Communism and restore Christianity to the Soviet lands, even as Hitler and other top Nazis did all they could to curtail religious influences in the army or the occupied areas. How did soldiers who participated in a murderous war of extermination come to regard themselves as decent men fighting for a worthy cause?. [Extracted from the article]

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Mark K. Cassell, Banking on the State: The Political Economy of Public Savings Banks (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021). Bryce Sait, The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019). Frank Bösch, ed., A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany since the 1970s (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018). Christopher A. Molnar, Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018). Eva Noack-Mosse, Last Days of Theresienstadt, trans. Skye Doney and Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Michael H. Kater, Culture in Nazi Germany (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019). Rolf Steininger, Germany and the Middle East: From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issue of West German military assistance to Israel from 1956 to 1967 constitutes a key part of Marwecki's "state building" argument. Marwecki, Daniel Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and State Building, London, Hurst and Company, 2020; 274 pp; £30.00; ISBN 9781787383180 I Germany and Israel, i based on Daniel Marwecki's doctoral dissertation in international politics at SOAS in London, makes two points that have long been part of the leftist criticism of West Germany's program of restitution and support for the state of Israel. [Extracted from the article]

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Volume 1 of War in the Far East, written by Peter Harmsen By tracing the origin of the Meiji Reforms in the late 1860s, Harmsen reviews the reasons behind Japan's historical victories over China and Russia. The assassinations gradually led to Japan's military-dominated politics that would first bring Japan into a large-scale war against China. [Extracted from the article]

Bischl uses files on NKVD troops operating at the Second Ukrainian Front and in Germany from the Russian State War Archive (RGVA). Bischl's dissertation counters these positions and contributes more nuance to a difficult discourse. Kerstin Bischl takes us in her dissertation into a world of sexual violence inside the Red Army. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Myth and Reality: The History of Operational Thinking in the German Army From Moltke the Elder to Heusinger" by Gerhard P. Groß.

This article reviews the 191st book in the "Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden" book series, called "Armee im Einsatz. Grundlagen, Strategien und Ergebnisse einer Beteiligung der Bundeswehr," edited by Hans J. Gießmann and Armin Wagner.

The article reviews the book "The German Army in Belgium, August 1914" by Jeff Lipkes.

The article reviews the book "Rührt Euch! Weg, Leistung und Krise der Bundeswehr," by Franz Uhle-Wettler.

The article reviews the book "Kameradschaft: Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. Jahrhundert," by Thomas Kühne.

Between September 1916 and January 1919, she kept an anonymous diary containing her observations of daily life in the capital city, Brussels, which, although not part of the front-line, was close enough to feel as though it were at the centre of the German military's war against civilians. Mary Thorp was born in London in 1864 but resided in Belgium from 1873 until her death in 1945. [Extracted from the article]

In essence, the German Reich was going all in on the submarine gamble-either it would win the war before the United States could have an effect on the conflict, or the war would be lost for Germany. Much more primitive than their World War II cousins, the U-boats of the Great War not only represented a new, "ungentlemanly" form of warfare and technology, but also were unproven and highly controversial, even among German leaders. Reviewed by Andrew G. Wilson The Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America is at first glance poorly titled; rather, it is the subtitle that truly encapsulates the book-Germany's Great War Gamble in the First World War. [Extracted from the article]

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, one individual stood out as more responsible than any other for Germany's military aggression - and, thus, for its subsequent catastrophic defeat, occupation, and division. The myth which still surrounds Stalin - that only such an exceedingly brutal figure could have successfully prepared the USSR for victorious war against the Reich - may be even more misleading than the notion that Hitler was the monkey wrench that wrecked an otherwise near-perfect German military machine. From an early point, Hitler and his subordinates possessed compelling evidence that decisive military victory almost surely was unachievable, yet they stubbornly ignored this glaring, but unwelcome, reality. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Warum Krieg? Die Sinndeutung des Krieges in der deutschen Militärelite 1871-1945," by Niklaus Meier.

A review of the book "The German Army and the Defence of the Reich: Military Doctrine and the Conduct of the Defensive Battle, 1918-1939," by Matthias Strohn, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Militär, Staat und Gesellschaft im 20. Jahrhundert (1890-1990)," by Bernhard R. Kroener.