Название: Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500
Автор: Peter H. Wilson
Издательство: Belknap Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 981
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 16.3 MB

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 march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting.