Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism

by William J. Astore and Dennis E. Showalter

Book Overview

With his victory over the Russian army at the battle of Tannenberg in August 1914, Paul von Hindenburg became a war hero. By 1916 he had parlayed an exaggerated reputation for decisive victory into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574886541
• ISBN13: 9781574886542
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An overall short summary of Germany's WWI leader.

As the authors point out, it was not the Chancellor or William II that ran Germany late in World War I, but Hinderburg and Ludendorf. These men were responsible for the gamble that payed off in huge losses to the German Army and moral problems both at the front and at home. These guys called the shots, and when Germany could no longer go on, they blamed it on the minorities back home (Jews, Communists, profiteers). Hinderburg was the author of the stab in the back theory. Rather than admit that it was their policies that lost the war, they blamed it on someone else. Hinderburg was later responsible for bringing Hitler to power and he should be blamed for losses in both wars. The authors show Hinderburg in a negative light with all he did. This is a nice short read on a bad military leader. At a little over a hundred pages, it shows Hinderburg's rise and the faults that resulted in millions of deaths.