Iron and Blood : : A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500 / / Peter H. Wilson.
From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before the rise of Prussia and the world wars.German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (816 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Note on Form
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 Balancing War and Peace
- 1 Warlords
- 2 Forming Armies
- 3 Going for a Soldier
- PART II Accepting War as Permanent
- 4 Restraining the War Monster
- 5 Permanent Armies
- 6 From Extraordinary to Ordinary Burden
- PART III Professionalizing War
- 7 Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns
- 8 Professionalizing War
- 9 Socialization of the Military
- PART IV Nationalizing War
- 10 War and Nation- Building
- 11 Nations in Arms
- 12 Serving the Nation
- 13 Demagogues and Democrats
- 14 From Total War to the End of War?
- 15 Citizens in Uniform
- Notes
- Index
- Tafel