The Arms Of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War - Brossura

Manchester, William

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ISBN 10: 0316529400 ISBN 13: 9780316529402

Casa editrice: Little, Brown US, 2003

Riassunto

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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Descrizione del libro

* A masterwork of history restored to print. This book by the preeminent historian of our time tells the extraordinary 400 year saga of the family that provided arms to the Kaiser and to Hitler and in so doing wielded enormous power and influenced the course of world events.

L'autore

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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• Editore: Little, Brown US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0316529400
• ISBN 13: 9780316529402
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 992