Book contents
- Violence in Defeat
- Cambridge Military Histories
- Violence in Defeat
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of Events
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Regionality and Total War in East Prussia
- 2 Eastern Front Battles on German Soil
- 3 The City As a Fortress Community
- 4 Redefining Königsberg: Historical Continuity in Practice
- 5 The Evacuation of East Prussia
- 6 Königsberg as a Community of Violence
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2021
- Violence in Defeat
- Cambridge Military Histories
- Violence in Defeat
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of Events
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Regionality and Total War in East Prussia
- 2 Eastern Front Battles on German Soil
- 3 The City As a Fortress Community
- 4 Redefining Königsberg: Historical Continuity in Practice
- 5 The Evacuation of East Prussia
- 6 Königsberg as a Community of Violence
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
War and conflict often force men and women to take decisions they had never considered during peacetime. In his 1845 novel Twenty Years After – a sequel to The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas describes a scene in which one of the book’s main antagonists, a man known as Mordaunt, reports to Sir Oliver Cromwell after a battle with the guard regiment of King Charles I, which resulted in the King’s capture:
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- Violence in DefeatThe Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945, pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021