Название: The Imperial German Army Between Kaiser and King: Monarchy, Nation-Building, and War, 1866-1918
Автор: Gavin Wiens
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3031228626
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 463
Размер: 20,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book provides a reappraisal of Germany’s military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War. At its core is the following question: how 'German' was the imperial German army? This army, which emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871, has commonly been seen as the 'school of the nation'. After all – so this argument goes – tens of thousands of young men passed through its ranks each year, with conscripts undergoing an intense program of patriotic education and returning to civilian life as fervent German nationalists and ardent supporters of the German emperor, or Kaiser.