Elite 97: The Kaiser's Warlords

✍ Scribed by Ronald Pawly, Patrice Courcelle

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 66
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Osprey's study of the German commanders of World War I (1914-1918). The turn of the 20th century saw Imperial Germany as essentially a militarist state, whose growing industrial resources and wealth were harnessed to the task of increasing German military power, at a time of aggressive expansionist diplomacy in competition with Britain and France. After her victories over Austria in the 1860s and France in 1870, Germany's General Staff enjoyed tremendous professional prestige throughout Europe, and was the model for all aspects of command and control. The German army was essentially that of Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony with smaller contingents from the lesser states. Its generals were the men who planned, initiated, and to a large extent controlled the course of World War I.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
TITLE PAGE......Page 2
IMPERIAL GERMANY ON THE EVE OF WAR......Page 3
1914–18: KRIEGSPIEL BECOMES REALITY......Page 9
BIOGRAPHIES......Page 24
THE PLATES......Page 57
INDEX......Page 64
RELATED TITLES......Page 65
IMPRINT......Page 66