ISBN10: 0674022130, ISBN13: 9780674022133, [publisher: Cambridge MA & London UK. 2006. Harvard Univ. Press] Hardcover First Edition grey & black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xix+372p. notes. index. world war ii. military history. third reich. nazi germany. ~This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS troops, and not an accomp0liced to the massacres of civilians. Wolfram Wette, a preeminent German military historian, explodes the myth of a "clean" Wehrmacht with devastating clarity. This book reveals the Wehrmacht's long~standing prejudices against Jews, Slavs and Bolsheviks, beliefs that predated the prophecies of Mein Kampf and the paranoia of National Socialism. Though the sixteen ~ million ~ member German army is often portrayed as a victim of Nazi mania, we come to see that from 1941 to 1944 these soldiers were ...
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