WHY THE GERMANS LOSE AT WAR: The Myth of German Military Superiority - Softcover

Kenneth Macksey joined the Royal Armoured Corps in 1941, saw action in Normandy in 1944 and Germany in 1945, and after World War II spent more than twenty years as an officer of the Royal Tank Regiment. He is internationally known for his works on military history, including Guderian: Panzer General, Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe, and his recent Why the Germans Lose at War.

It was the case I finished this book and firstly it seemed interesting but not passionating. But these idea dured only a few minutes because I listened news coming from a little rich Germanic centroeuropean country where a very, very conservative politician had won much votes and whose name starts by H as Hitler. Immediately I saw the book with new eyes, seeming to have unexpected life and I reflected -well, truly, why Germans lose at war?- This is the case Germans seems to have exactly the vices and virtues that Spanish lack. Perhaps for this we have so many Germans living in Spain and viceversa. Why a wealthy country works so well but doesn't know to live the life? In my opinion some Germans suppose that there is something that makes them superior to the other peoples. I think that distinction they believe it's the "Kultur". Kultur seems for they as the Divine Grace for the human gender in wide sense: God gives a soul and the Grace to the mankind, but no to the cattle, therefore we can eat a beefsteak without remorse. Well, I think something alike happened to many German philosophers which thougth his Kultur was worth in itself and an isolated unique German invention, but I believe Kultur is absolutely nothing withouth Culture. Bach might not have done nothing without the previous contributions of the Italian music or the Spanish polyphony and neither Leibniz without contributions of foreign mathematicians and thinkers. Unnecesary to remember what use of these idearium did people as military or politics even the most brilliants Von Clausewitz, Bismarck, Rommel, never mind. The practical result of these ideas is already well known: a man can be high and tall but if he walks badly, he does a terrible noise when he falls. --By A Customer