1st Edition
The East German Army The Second Power in the Warsaw Pact
By Thomas M. Forster
Copyright 1980
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1980, provides a detailed analysis of the East German army in the last decade of the Cold War. It examines the capabilities of the main force, after the Soviet army, in the Soviet Bloc, and shows how it depended on more things than purely military factors and national policies. It focuses the army as part of a society that had been comprehensively militarized through... Read more
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Biography
Thomas M. Forster
