David Stahel (Canberra University of New South Wales)

Hitler's Panzer Generals

Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparative biographical study of four leading German panzer generals in the Second World War. Using the private wartime correspondence of Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt, Stahel sheds new light on their private lives and public personas, their leadership at the front and their culpability in Nazi criminality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781009282819
• ISBN-10: 1009282816
• Artikelnr.: 65341160

Autorenporträt

David Stahel is a leading authority on German military history in the Second World War. He is a senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales in Australia. His previous publications include Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (2009), Kiev 1941 (2012), The Battle for Moscow (2015) and Retreat from Moscow (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The letters of the Panzer generals: validity, veracity and verification
2. The private generals: embracing family and war
body, mind and soul
Burdens of the heart
Burdens of command
3. The public generals: military celebrity
Charm offensives
Status symbols
The power of privilege
4. The criminal generals: enemy in the East
Criminal orders
The war behind the front
War of annihilation
5. The military generals: Delusion and disclosure
Discord and dysfunction
Operational silences
Narcissistic command
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.