On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Holger Afflerbach
Sep 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick
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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters, and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalization of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.
About the author
Holger Afflerbach is professor of modern European history at the University of Leeds. His publications include a biography of Erich von Falkenhayn, and a study of the Triple Alliance.
Elliot Fitzpatrick is an actor from London who has performed in the West End, at Shakespeare's Globe, and with the Rose Theatre Kingston. He has narrated over fifty titles, including books by Bear Grylls, and earned a 2021 Audie Award nomination for his work on Caroline Mitchell's The Midnight Man.
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