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The Great War
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Author
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Paul von Hindenburg. Charles Messenger, ed.
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Publisher
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Greenhill
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Format
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hardcover
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9.5
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6.5
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ISBN
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9781853677045
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Pages/Publication Date
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236/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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22798
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This item is not available.
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Description
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The son of Prussian aristocrats, Paul von Hindenburg was educated at the Wahlstatt and Berlin cadet schools, before joining the army in 1865, and by the end of the Franco-Prussian War he was promoted to the rank of general. He retired from the army in 1911, but returned to service at the outbreak of World War I, presiding over a number of victories on the Eastern Front and becoming a cult figure in Germany, where he was seen as the perfect embodiment of Germanic strength and moral decency. Von Hindenburg's memoir offers insight into German military thinking during World War I, an institution far different from the Nazi Wehrmacht inaugurated two decades later.
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