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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? 100 years after the German defeat, Holger Afflerbach traces the military developments, analyses the political-strategic decisions and shows that the war could have ended differently. A German victory was already a distant prospect after the failure of the Western Offensive in autumn 1914. But there is not only victory or defeat. In his densely arguing book based on numerous new archival researches, Holger Afflerbach shows that a draw would have been the logical outcome of the First World War - if the German leadership had not made serious mistakes.
But the policy of the Allies must also be seen much more critically than it is today. German policy was not as clearly committed to all-out conquest as is the general verdict, and German peace advances would have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss. But the Allies did not go for them, because they were fixated on victory against Germany and stuck to their own imperialist plans.
But the policy of the Allies must also be seen much more critically than it is today. German policy was not as clearly committed to all-out conquest as is the general verdict, and German peace advances would have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss. But the Allies did not go for them, because they were fixated on victory against Germany and stuck to their own imperialist plans.
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- Books (first-hand)
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- Afflerbach, Holger
- Title
- Auf Messers Schneide. Wie das Deutsche Reich den Ersten Weltkrieg verlor
- Details
- 40 bw ill., 5 tables, 11 bw maps. 664 pp.
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