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English Pages xvii, 186 pages: maps; 22 cm Year 2015
Table of contents :
Prelude --
For King and Fatherland --
A Tragedy of Errors --
Bolting the Barn Door --
Inferno --
Hand to Hand --
"Heat and centre of the strife" --
Legacy : A "German Victory"?