Essays on Eastern Front

Introduction

Regarded as the icon of German militarism, Paul von Hindenburg was one of the most popular field marshals, politicians and the second president of Germany. Hindenburg, a man of discipline and fortitude, served gloriously in the Prussian army retiring from the military in 1911. However, during the World War I, he was called back in service to serve the nation and he, with the help of his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, fought the Russian army victoriously bringing glorious victories in the eastern front of Germany.

Because of his immense popularity as a war hero, he was nominated to run for the German ...

Britain’s reluctance to give in to the threats of German power shaped the strategy of Hitler and the events leading to his demise during WWII. This theme can be observed beginning with Hitler’s attempts to isolate the Polish, his need for victory against the French and the declaration of war against the Soviet Union and it’s the failure of the Eastern Front leading to war with America. Hitler’s strategy was to either threaten Britain into submission or to create strategy that would lessen the likelihood that they would be supported by America. After the ...

The battle of Verdun was one of the longest battles of the World War One (WWO). The battle, which involved the French and German armies, lasted for a period about eleven months, from around February to December 1916. Perhaps, it is called the battler of Verdun because it was fought at the Verdun-sur-Meuse hills, north-eastern region of France (Hickman, 2013). The French army, of about 300,000 men, was under the commandership of General Philippe Petain and General Robert Nivelle; while the German army, of about 150,000 men, was under the commandership of Enrich von Flaknhayn and Crown Prince ...

World War I experiences

World War I refers to the first global historic war that originated in Europe, but equally affected other regions. It particularly it began on July 28, 1914 and ended by November 11, 1918, traversing for over four years. The World War I involved the greatest powers of the world at that time that included the United Kingdom, France, and Russia. The stages of development of the war entailed two-fold process that is the conventional and the expedients. The former lasted for around two years after it began in 1914 and ended in 1916 and the latter picked it from ...

Total war was the product of modern, industrial society and the tremendous advances in science and technology that were applied to the development of new weapons like the machine gun, the submarine, poison gas, the airplane and the atomic bomb. To be sure, warfare had always been brutal and atrocities were commonplace long before the invention of modern weapons, but in the world wars of the 20th Centuries, all of the industrial, scientific and economic power of advanced societies were applied to warfare, while the distinctions between civilians and soldiers disappeared as cities were carpet bombed out of existence. ...