Arden Bucholz
Auteur de Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871
A propos de l'auteur
Arden Bucholz is Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Brockport.
Œuvres de Arden Bucholz
Oeuvres associées
Delbruck's Modern Military History (1973) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 12 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 3
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- 1
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- 25
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- #508,561
- Évaluation
- 4.0
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- 6
Yet Moltke was no dour Prussian conservative (& hardly responsible for Germany's later abuses). To the contrary, the humanism of North European Enlightenment played an important role in his childhood & youth, which apparently were quite well spent in Denmark. The book's author is very fair & descriptive about this small country, not least when he describes its ill coordinated but stoic defence in 1864 against a far stronger Prussia.
A commendably short but dense book, by an author who cares about his subject, both as essential military history, & as important history proper.… (plus d'informations)