Hitler's Second Army is a historical book written by Alfred Vagts that delves into the military strategies and operations of the German army during World War II. The book focuses on the formation and deployment of the Second Army, which was created by Adolf Hitler in 1942 to expand Germany's military power and secure its hold on Eastern Europe. Vagts provides a detailed account of the Second Army's role in some of the most significant battles of the war, including the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad. He also ...
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Hitler's Second Army is a historical book written by Alfred Vagts that delves into the military strategies and operations of the German army during World War II. The book focuses on the formation and deployment of the Second Army, which was created by Adolf Hitler in 1942 to expand Germany's military power and secure its hold on Eastern Europe. Vagts provides a detailed account of the Second Army's role in some of the most significant battles of the war, including the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad. He also examines the army's involvement in the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against civilians in the areas under its control. The book draws on a range of primary sources, including official military records, personal diaries, and interviews with soldiers who fought in the Second Army. Vagts provides a comprehensive analysis of the army's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the political and ideological factors that shaped its actions. Overall, Hitler's Second Army offers a compelling and informative account of one of the most important military forces of the Second World War, shedding light on the complex and often brutal nature of the conflict.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Subtitled: "A description of Germany's military and semi-military organizations, besides the regular Army, that can be expected to fight bitterly as Allied forces penetrate deeper and deeper into Hitler's 'Fortress Europa'". 245 pp. Tight and clean copy with minor edgewear. Front board has three tiny spots. Pages are tanned with age. Dust jacket has original price of $1.00 on front flap. Red front and rear panels show light rubbing, as do hinges and flap folds. Light chipping on corners and spine ends, with lower fron corner having 1/2"W X 1/4" loss. Front hinge has 1/4" loss on top edge. Now in protective cover.
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Fair. 245, wraps, illus., page 245/6 separated (advertisement), page browning, covers worn and soiled, part of front endpaper missing. A Fighting Forces--Penguin Special. Explains each of the Nazi Party military and paramilitary forces including the S.A., the S.S., Motor Transportation Corps, Organization Todt, German Labor Front, National Socialist Womanhood, etc.
Edition:
This is "A Fighting Forces--Penguin Special #214"
Publisher:
Infantry Journal; Penguin Books
Published:
1943
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469938752
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Good. Highlighting/underlining. Cover has wear and soiling, and a small tear/ at spine. Light pencil underlining noted. Ink mark on front cover. Some page browning. [8], 245, [3] p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. From Wikipedia (translation): "Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (* 1892 in Basbeck ( 1986) were a poet, a historian and an author of military-historical works. In the First World War Vagts company leader was and received the iron cross of first and second class. As a representative of the advice of the officers it participated 1917 in the peace negotiations in Brest Litowsk. After the war Vagts worked as a historian on Institut for foreign policy of the University of Hamburg. After the Nazis came to power, Vagts emigrated, first to Great Britain and then into the USA. Vagts was a sharp critic of the national socialism, expressed itself in addition, against the surface bombardment of German cities in the Second World War.
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Fair in Fair jacket. [8], 245, [3] pages. Illustrations. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Endpapers and pages have some browning/discolorment. Ding to top edge of front board. Includes a Foreword, Introduction, and Chapters on The Nazi Storm Troopers, The Bodyguard Echelons, Hitler's Foreign Legions, The Nazi Motor Transportation Corps, Nazi Air Organizations, Organization Todt of OT, Technical Emergency Corps, The Reich Labor Service, The German Labor Front, National Socialist League of Ex-Service Men, National Socialist People's Welfare, Hitler Youth, and National Socialist Womanhood. This work is a description of Germany's military and semi-miltary organizations, besides the regular Army, that can be expected to fight bitterly as Allied forces penetrate deeper and deeper into Hitler's "Fortress Europa". Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (December 1, 1892 in Basbeck-June 19, 1986 in Cambridge, MA) was a German poet and historian. Vagts served in the First World War as a Captain in the German military and was awarded the Iron Cross first class. In the years 1923-1932 Vagts was a historian at the Institut für auswärtige Politik (Institute for Foreign Affairs) at the Hamburg university. In this role Vagts visited the Yale university in the United States where he worked with American historian Charles A. Beard. In 1927 he married Beard's daughter, Miriam. Their son, Detlev, was born in 1929. In 1932, with the rise of Nazism, the Vagts family left Germany for the UK. In 1933 they moved to the US, where Alfred became a US citizen. Initially he worked as an independent scholar. Between 1938 and 1939, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he remained until 1942. Then, until the end of WWII, Vagts served on the Board of Economic Warfare. After the war, and until his death, Vagts continued to work as an independent scholar. Vagts's work comprises scientific and literary books as well as essays. His most well known work is The History of Militarism, Civilian and Military. Vagts collaborated with Hajo Holborn, Eckhart Kehr, George W. Hallgarten, Fritz T. Epstein and Hans Rosenberg. Vagts is best known for his 1938 A History of Militarism, Civilian and Military, which drew an important distinction between "the military way" and "militarism." The former term described a reasonable, rational approach to waging war with the purpose of accomplishing the objectives of state policy, a manner "limited in scope, confined to one function, and scientific in its essential qualities." The latter involved a "vast array of customs, interests, prestige, actions and thought...transcending true military purposes...so constituted that it may hamper and defeat the purposes of the military way....Militarism displays the qualities of caste and cult, authority and belief." Vagts also distinguished between militarism as practiced by professional soldiers and by civilians, often regarding the latter as the worst offenders. Vagts was a salient commentator on Clausewitz, and he frequently referred to him and had a sophisticated grasp of his theories. Vagts was unusual among the expatriate German military writers in being essentially critical of the philosopher. Vagts's critique was similar to Liddell Hart's in that he saw much of the negative impact of On War as being due to his disciples' misapprehension of the concept of "absolute war." Vagts argued that this was a misapprehension for which Clausewitz's method of expression was only partly to blame; the laziness and stupidity of his readers played as great a role. More fundamentally, Vagts argued that Clausewitz himself had not properly conceived the relationship between the army and the state.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. Small book is clean and tight. Pages have darkened. Dust jacket has shelf wear on all edges. Dust jacket has $1.00 price, 1943 date on title page and verso. "A description of Germany's military and semi-military organizations, besides the regular Army, that can be expected to fight bitterly as Allied forces penetrate deeper and deeper into Hitler's "Fortress Euopa.""
