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The Devil's Virtuosos: German Generals at War, 1940-5
The Devil's Virtuosos German Generals at War 19405 Author:David Downing In this study of WWII, the author examines the decisive European campaigns from the point of view of German generals who exercised the greatest influence on their planning, direction & outcome. This portrait of a select group of highly skilled & disciplined officers--from Guderian, Manstein and Rommel to von Kluge, Model, von Rundstedt a... more »nd von Bock--demonstrates that ultimately the generals' strengths became the very weaknesses that doomed the German effort.« less