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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

William Mulligan. The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914–1930. (Monographs in German History, number 12.) New York: Berghahn Books. 2005. Pp. 247. $70.00.

I guess it's all in how you define "modern." William Mulligan dates the creation of a "modern German army" to the Weimar era. It is a novel idea, and so is the implication that Germany fought World War I with a premodern military. A mass army, numbering in the millions, equipped with a full range of advanced machine weapons and led by fully articulated systems of staff and command: it certainly seemed modern enough.

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