Dual study of the two Generals who came to dominate Germany in the Great War. Hindenburg, the ‘wooden titan’ and his evil genius Ludendorff, were masters of the battlefield, but failed to recognise political and economic reality.

The German warlords Hindenburg and Ludendorff were two of the greatest generals of the First World War.At the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in 1914, their brilliance on the battlefield annihilated one Russian Army completely and drove a second from German territory. Given command of the western front, the duo successfully held off repeated Allied attacks from the Somme onwards - and only narrowly failed to break the Allies in the great German offensives in Spring 1918. In the process they became the virtual military dfctators of Germany, breaking the careers of Chancellors and Ministers and bending the Kaiser to their will. But their iron rule broke on their refusal to recognise Germany’s steadily weakening position, and her desperate economic plight. The ‘stab in the back’ myth that they perpetrated paved the way for Hitler and helped fuel the outbreak of the Second World War twenty years later. This concise book tells the inside story of the German war machine during the Great War and the twin titans who ran it.

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Product Code:	10544
Author:	John Lee
Format:	207pp, maps, hb. Published Price £16.99
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