商品簡介
Useful as a text for advanced students of Cold War history, this collection comprises 11 contributed essays. Arrangement is in sections on the beginning of rearmament, the debate within German society, the Allied powers and the creation of new German armed forces, the economics of German rearmament, debates with the Bundeswehr about organization and doctrine, and creating the DDR's armed forces. A concluding bibliographic essay on books and sources reinforces the book's usefulness as an overview introduction (rather than a comprehensive treatment). Editor Corum (history, Queens' University, Canada) provides an introductory essay. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
James S. Corum, PhD (1991) in History, Queen's University, Canada, is Dean of the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia. He has published extensively in German military history and his most recent book is Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen, Master of the German Air War (University Press of Kansas, 2008).
