Germany at War [4 volumes]: 400 Years of Military History

Written by experts for use by nonexperts, this monumental work probes Germany's "Genius for War" and the unmistakable pattern of tactical and operational innovation and excellence evident throughout the nation's military history.

• Pulls together all the historical military threads that resulted in modern Germany

• Examines wars, battles, leaders, weapons, and strategy and tactics

• Features contributors from 14 countries, including official historians from America, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Estonia

• Offers biographies of selected German military leaders who made significant contributions in non-German wars, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Christian von Zweibrücken, and Johann Gottlieb Rall (American Revolution) and Carl Schurz (American Civil War)

• Includes 77 original documents, more than half of which were translated into English for the first time for this encyclopedia