The War Of The Future: In The Light Of The Lessons Of The World War
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the aftermath of the catastrophic conflagration that reshaped the entire European order, one of Germany's most formidable military strategists turned his penetrating gaze toward what lay ahead: The War of the Future: In the Light of the Lessons of the World War presents General Friedrich von Bernhardi's unflinching post-war analysis, dissecting the tactical, strategic, and technological upheavals that defined the Great War and projecting their implications for the conflicts yet to come. Drawing on his decades of command experience and his reputation as one of the German Imperial Army's foremost military theorists, Bernhardi argues with characteristic conviction that the lessons of 1914–1918 were not merely historical footnotes but urgent imperatives for any nation that wished to survive the next great struggle. Translated into English by F. A. Holt, O.B.E., and published by London's Hutchinson & Co. of Paternoster Row, this work stands as a remarkable primary document of interwar military thought — a window into the strategic mind of an empire that had just suffered catastrophic defeat, yet remained unbroken in its analytical rigour. Bernhardi, already notorious for his earlier work Germany and the Next War, here chronicles the evolution of modern warfare with a prophetic authority that would prove deeply unsettling in the decades that followed. For students of military history, WWI scholarship, and the intellectual currents that shaped the road to 1939, this volume raises a haunting question: how much of what Bernhardi predicted actually came to pass?
Author: General Von Bernhardi
Format: Hardback
Published: 1920, Hutchinson & Co.
Genre: WW1
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the aftermath of the catastrophic conflagration that reshaped the entire European order, one of Germany's most formidable military strategists turned his penetrating gaze toward what lay ahead: The War of the Future: In the Light of the Lessons of the World War presents General Friedrich von Bernhardi's unflinching post-war analysis, dissecting the tactical, strategic, and technological upheavals that defined the Great War and projecting their implications for the conflicts yet to come. Drawing on his decades of command experience and his reputation as one of the German Imperial Army's foremost military theorists, Bernhardi argues with characteristic conviction that the lessons of 1914–1918 were not merely historical footnotes but urgent imperatives for any nation that wished to survive the next great struggle. Translated into English by F. A. Holt, O.B.E., and published by London's Hutchinson & Co. of Paternoster Row, this work stands as a remarkable primary document of interwar military thought — a window into the strategic mind of an empire that had just suffered catastrophic defeat, yet remained unbroken in its analytical rigour. Bernhardi, already notorious for his earlier work Germany and the Next War, here chronicles the evolution of modern warfare with a prophetic authority that would prove deeply unsettling in the decades that followed. For students of military history, WWI scholarship, and the intellectual currents that shaped the road to 1939, this volume raises a haunting question: how much of what Bernhardi predicted actually came to pass?