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Contarini's avatar

What is the best military biography of the elder Von Moltke in English?

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

If you want something modern and academic (but not painfully slow), try Dennis Showalter's 'Railroads and Rifles'. If you prefer something a little more polemic, go with Spenser Wilkinson's 'The Brian of an Army'.

Much of what Moltke wrote - and he wrote a lot - has been translated into English.

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Contarini's avatar

I read Showalter.

I will look for the other one.

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Contarini's avatar

https://open.substack.com/pub/contarini/p/the-complete-vanquishment-of-the?r=9sy97&utm_medium=ios

And I see you were the only person to put a like on this post, which excerpts Phil Sheridan‘s memoir, where he is writing about accompanying the entourage of the Prussian, King, including Bismarck and von Moltke.

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Terry Tucker's avatar

Ref Question on von Moltke. What of this one? "Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler the Von Moltke Family's History"

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