Description: Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.
Brief description: Gerhard P. Gross is a historian at the Bundeswehr Center of Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw) in Potsdam, Germany.
Review Quotes:
It is in the end a fascinating study of how those at the highest levels of the German General Staff thought in the past--and still think today.
-- "History Net"