The Arms of Krupp (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
992
Utgivningsdatum
2003-08-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Little, Brown & Company
Illustrationer
69ill.
Dimensioner
234 x 152 x 42 mm
Vikt
1050 g
Antal komponenter
1
SAB
Ldz Krupp
ISBN
9780316529402

The Arms of Krupp

The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War

av William Manchester
Häftad,  Engelska, 2003-08-01
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For the first time in Trade Paperback the massive, compelling book in which William Manchester brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that armed Germany in three major wars. Their cannon won the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. In 1871 they invented the first anti-aircraft gun to shoot down observation balloons. In WWI their mammoth weapons shelled Paris at a range of 81 miles. For 40 years they manufactured submarines, beginning with the U-1 that menaced Allied shipping. In 1940 their cannon actually shelled England from across the channel. The Krupps armed the forces of the Kaiser and financed Hitler's 'Terror Election' of 1933. Hitler honoured their loyalty by decreeing special tax exemptions that continued to bind a post-war West Germany. The Krupps even survived a Nuremberg conviction to become the dynamo behind the 'Common Market'.
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** 'A colorful, extremely readable account. To be the biographer of Krupp is to write the history of modern Germany.' - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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William Manchester is professor of History Emeritus at Wesleyan University. His biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion, is considered definitive.

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