How Germany’s soldiers helped to make and unmake the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
Can you negotiate the end of a total war? The story of the German revolution, near civil war and the brutal process of peace-making both inside and without.
A podcast about Wages of Destruction, the modernity of the Nazi war effort and the logic of Eastward expansion with Alex Doherty of Politics, Theory, Other.
How Imperial Germany struggled to find a victorious way out of an unwinnable war and how the perverse cunning of history thwarted it.
Germany’s vain struggle to win the Great War in 1914-1916.
Imperial Germany: a regime uneasily founded on militarism in the first age of “globalization”.
War in Germany is back. Installment 11 on the Franco-Prussian war.
1864-1866: How war finally emerged as the solution to the Prussian impasse. Bismarck and Wilhelm roll the iron dice.
Taking the War in Germany story up to 1850.
Clausewitz’s historical theory of war set against the Prussian crisis of 1806-1815.
The shock of revolutionary warfare, the Napoleonic struggle for continental hegemony, Prussia’s crisis and the desperate choices of 1812-1813.
The romp continues: Frederick the Great, Seven Years War, the philosophes on war, Washington’s Prussian drill master and the French revolution.
Lectures 2 and 3.
Notes on teaching a German military history course in the US in 2018.
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