The German War Machine: An Account of the Inside Workings of the Most Stupendous and Efficient System Ever Devised by Man for Warfare and Secret Diplomatic Intelligence (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The German War Machine<br/><br/>Prussia has always been fortunate in producing able men at the roost needed moments. A man arose with a gilt for military orgmnization ile had every province, district, town, and village -t 'russia carc fuily scheduled and the able-bodied men thereof put on record. He selected the men permitted Prussia under the Napoleonic decree and drilled them. No sooner were those men drilled than they were dismissed and another called in. From this point dates modern conscription the. Father of which was General Stein and this also inaugurated the birth of the Machine. In the three years Prussia had well-drilled men and re serves, quite a difi'erent proposition from the men Napoleon though. I~e had to face on his retreat from Moscow, and which played a decisive factor in the overthrow of the dictator of Europe.

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