The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945

by Walter Gorlitz (Editor)

Overview

These extraordinary memoirs—written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes—offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of the blitzkrieg against Poland, the conquest of France, and the brutal campaign against the Soviet Union. Most startling is his account of the final eighteen days of the Thrid Reich, which he personally directed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815410720
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/12/2000
Edition description:	1ST COOPER
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	1,142,100
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.38(h) x 0.64(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
Part I
1	The Background and Career of Field-Marshal Keitel, 1882-1946	11
Part II
2	The Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis, 1938	35
3	From Austria to the end of the French Campaign, 1938-1940	54
4	Prelude to the Attack on Russia, 1940-1941	120
5	The Russian Campaign, 1941-1943	165
6	Extracts from Keitel's Wartime Letters to his Wife	187
7	The Bomb Plot, 20th July 1944	192
8	The Last Days under Adolf Hitler, 1945	196
9	Afterthoughts	235
Part III
10	The Indictment	241
	Notes	270
	Index	282
	Maps
1	The Invasion of France, 1940	109
2	Barbarossa--The German Invasion of Russia, 1941	149
3	The Black Summer of 1942	173
4	The Battle for Berlin, 1945	211

Editorial Reviews

This is an unparalleled insider's account of Nazi Germany, including Hitler and its other leaders, its uncoordinated and often inefficient ministries, service branches, and industrial complex, and its diabolical philosophies and sometimes disastrous strategies.

World War II History

Important and revealing...a frightening picture of the German militarist....Keitel appears as tragic figure living in an unbelievable doctrinaire world of fantastic automatons all lacking one vital asset—a sense of morality.

The New York Times - Cornelius Ryan

A shocking illustration of how honor and loyalty can be misused....The real value of the book lies in its unvarnished—-though often involuntary—portrayal of the moral confusion that spread through Hitler's Germany.

The Christian Science Monitor - Ernest S. Pisko

A legacy to history.--Kirkus

A shocking illustration of how honor and loyalty can be misused....The real value of the book lies in its unvarnished---though often involuntary--portrayal of the moral confusion that spread through Hitler's Germany.--Ernest S. Pisko "The Christian Science Monitor "

This is an unparalleled insider's account of Nazi Germany, including Hitler and its other leaders, its uncoordinated and often inefficient ministries, service branches, and industrial complex, and its diabolical philosophies and sometimes disastrous strategies.--World War II History

From the Publisher

A shocking illustration of how honor and loyalty can be misused....The real value of the book lies in its unvarnished—-though often involuntary—portrayal of the moral confusion that spread through Hitler's Germany.
— Ernest S. Pisko

Christian Science Monitor

Important and revealing...a frightening picture of the German militarist....Keitel appears as tragic figure living in an unbelievable doctrinaire world of fantastic automatons all lacking one vital asset—a sense of morality.
— Cornelius Ryan

And The New York Times Book Review