The First Soldier
Hitler as Military LeaderAfter Germanys humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their countrys brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the F’hrers erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent.
That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germanys fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitlers tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitlers thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. ISBN: 9780300205985, 0300205988
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