The Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918
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Scott Stephenson, a West Point graduate and associate professor of history at the US Army Command and General Staff College, has written a moving and often brilliant book that should serve as a model for the so-called "new military history" focused more on institutions than battlefield operations. The German army that crossed the Rhine and paraded through German cities looked a lot more combat capable than it really was. (former US Army Chief of Staff Edward "Shy" Meyer might have called it a "hollow army," lacking reserves and replacements in equipment and personnel.) Germans who believed that the enemy never beat such fine-looking forces adopted "the stab in the back" theory by which the Nazis rode into post-war political power.
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The Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918
The Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918. By Scott Stephenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 354 pages. $99.
Scott Stephenson, a West Point graduate and associate professor of history at the US Army Command and General St...See the full content of this document
