History of the German General Staff 1657-1945

Goerlitz, Walter. History of the German General Staff 1657-1945. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (1975). Reprint of the first American edition from 1953. Octavo. xviii,508pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Captivating work on German Generals such as Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Clausewitz, von Moltke, Schlieffen, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, as well as Hitler’s Generals von Beck, Blomberg, Brauchtisch, and many others. Illustrated with few b/w reproductions of photographs and paintings. Introduction by Walter Millis. This is a translation of Der Deutsche Generalstab which was published by Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte. Translated from the German by Brian Battershaw. Very minor scuffing on binding. Tight copy with binding in very good, interior in fine condition. vg. Hardcover. (28145) $50