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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin American

William F. Sater and Holger H. Herwig. The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army. (Studies in War, Society, and the Military.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. 247. $50.00.

William F. Sater and Holger H. Herwig's book deals with the Chilean army and its Prussianization during the years 1890–1920. The first chapter, on the "Prussian Military Machine," is an excellent synthesis and essential to understanding the rest of the book. Equally good is chapter two, which describes the Chilean army before Prussianization. Nevertheless, the book loses some of its appeal in subsequent chapters, not so much because of a lack of good information but due to its exaggerations. The authors are very critical—too critical, I think—of Emil Körner, the key figure in the Prussianization of the Chilean army. Körner was not without flaws, but he was not an incompetent and corrupt individual who simply harmed the army, as the authors conclude. Chapter three, "How Körner's Army Failed," gives the impression that there was nothing good in the Chilean army of 1900. In fact, it was considerably improved as an organization after Körner undertook the task of modernizing it, as can be perceived up to the present: not only its uniforms and military marches but also its hierarchical sense and the whole "culture" that identifies it. . . .

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