Arden Bucholz
Autor de Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871
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Arden Bucholz is Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Brockport.
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Yet Moltke was no dour Prussian conservative (& hardly responsible for Germany's later abuses). To the contrary, the humanism of North European Enlightenment played an important role in his childhood & youth, which apparently were quite well spent in Denmark. The book's author is very fair & descriptive about this small country, not least when he describes its ill coordinated but stoic defence in 1864 against a far stronger Prussia.
A commendably short but dense book, by an author who cares about his subject, both as essential military history, & as important history proper.… (más)