{"product_id":"my-war-memories-1914-1918-in-two-volumes","title":"My War Memories, 1914-1918, in Two Volumes","description":"Two volume set. Includes 12 fold-out maps and 46 maps in the text. \"Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He first achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German Army’s victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. Following his appointment as First Quartermaster general (German: Erster Generalquartiermeister) of the German General Staff in August 1916, he became one of the leading figures of a military dictatorship that dominated Germany for the rest of the war. His great strategic failure was that of Germany's great Spring Offensive in 1918 in its quest for total victory and he was forced out that October.[1] After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader, and a promoter of the Stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that the German loss in World War I was caused by the betrayal of the German Army by Marxists, Bolsheviks, Freemasons and Jews who were furthermore responsible for the disadvantageous settlement negotiated for Germany in the Treaty of Versailles. He took part in the failed Kapp Putsch (coup d’état) with Wolfgang Kapp in 1920 and the Beer Hall Putsch of Adolf Hitler in 1923, and in 1925, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of President of Germany against his former superior Hindenburg. From 1924 to 1928, he represented the German Völkisch Freedom Party in the Reichstag (legislature). Consistently pursuing a purely military line of thought after the war, Ludendorff developed the theory of \"Total War\", which he published as Der totale Krieg (The Total War) in 1935. In this work, he argued that the entire physical and moral forces of the nation should be mobilized, because peace was merely an interval between wars.[2] Ludendorff was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross and the Pour le Mérite.\"","brand":"Hutchinson \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31461762793542,"sku":"2303477","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2303477.jpg?v=1585277959","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/my-war-memories-1914-1918-in-two-volumes","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}