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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Shepherd, Ben
Titre(s) : Hitler's soldiers [Texte imprimé] : the German army in the Third Reich / Ben H. Shepherd
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, copyright [2016]
Description matérielle : xxiii, 639 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Comprend : The Army in the New Reich, 1933-36 ; Road to War, 1936-39 ; Poland, 1939-40 ;
"Sitzkrieg," 1939-40 ; The Greatest Victory, 1940 ; Occupying the West, 1940-41
; Planning Operation Barbarossa, 1940-41 ; Barbarossa Unleashed, 1941 ; Barbarossa
Undone, 1941 ; Resistance and Reaction, 1941 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe
; Winter Crisis, 1941-42 ; The Desert War, 1941-42 ; Southern Russia and Stalingrad,
1942-43 ; Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : The Soviet Union ; Faces of Occupation,
1942-43 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe ; The Initiative Lost, 1943 ; Takeover
in Southern Europe, 1943-44 ; The Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Ostheer Retreats
; The Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Frontsoldat Endures ; Italy, 1943-44 ; Fortress
Europe Breached, 1943-44 ; The Greatest Defeat, 1944 ; The Army "Recovers," 1944-45
; The Army Self-Destructs, 1945.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-615) and index
"For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional
and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps
of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent
scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the
German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters
and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social
composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military
occupation. This was a true people's army, drawn from across German society and reflecting
that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad,
Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews,
prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the
army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands
were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army's
early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to 1945, the latter due not
only to Allied superiority and Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also
to the failings--moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational--of the army's
own leadership"
Sujet(s) : Soldats -- Allemagne -- 1900-1945
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Opérations militaires
Allemagne (1871-1945). Heer
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300179033. - ISBN 0300179030
EAN 9780300179033
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45326634h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45326634
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