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ERICH von LUDENDORFF, 1865-1937

A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources

CONTENTS General Sources.....p.1 WWI -General.....p.2 -Specific Aspects.....p.2

GENERAL SOURCES

Arminius [pseudonym]. From Serajevo to the Rhine: Generals of the Great War. London: Hutchinson, 1933. 287 p. D507A72.

"As Ludendorff Would Have Done It." Infantry Journal (Apr 1919): pp. 808 -.

Breucker, Wilhelm. Die Tragik Ludendorff. Stollhamm: Rauschenbusch, 1953. 200 p. DD231L8 B7.

Dupuy, Trevor N. The Military Lives of Hindenburg and Ludendorff of Imperial Germany. NY: Watts, 1970. 200 p. DD231H5 D8.

Liddell-Hart, Basil H. Reputations, Ten Years After. Boston: Little, 1928. 316 p. D507L5.

Ludendorff, Erich. The Nation at War. London: Hutchinson, 1936. 188 p. U21L82.

Rose, Paul J. “Erich Ludendorff.” In Chief of Staff; the Principal Officers Behind History’s Great Commanders. Vol. 1: Napoleonic Wars to World War I. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute, 2008. pp. 109-22. UB210C537v1.

Simonds, Frank H. They Won the War. Freeport: Books for Libraries, 1968 reprint of 1931 edition. 109 p. D507S52. See "Ludendorff: He Almost Won."

Viereck, George S. Glimpses of the Great. NY: Macaulay, 1930. 469 p. D412V53. See "The New Foe of Ludendorff." Erich von Ludendorff p.2

WORLD WAR I-GENERAL

Asprey, Robert B. The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I. NY: Morrow, 1991. 558 p. D530A77.

Buat, Edmond A. “Hindenburg and Ludendorff, Strategists.” Typescript translation, AWC, 1923. 101 p. D531B8213.

Buckelew, John D. "Erich Ludendorff and the German War Effort, 1916-18: A Study in the Military Exercise of Power." 550 p. PhD dss, San Diego: U CA, 1974. DD231L8 B87.

Goodspeed, Donald J. Ludendorff: Genius of World War I. Boston: Houghton, 1966. 335 p. DD231L8 G66.

Jones, William A. "Ludendorff: Strategist." AWC student paper, 1992. 36 p. Arch.

“Ludendorff.” Army Quarterly (Apr1938): pp. 17-22. Per.

Ludendorff, Erich. Documents du G.Q.G. Allemand sur le Role Quil A Joue de 1916 a 1918. 2 vols.Paris: Payot, 1922. D531A314.

_____. Kriegfuhrung und Politik. Berlin: Mittler, 1922. 342 p. D531L75.

_____. Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918. 2 vols. NY: Harper, 1919. D531L7813.

Parkinson, Roger. Tormented Warrior: Ludendorff and the Supreme Command. NY: Stein, 1979. 248 p. DD231L8 P37.

WWI-SPECIFIC ASPECTS

Camon, Hubert. "The Battles of Ludendorff on the Russian Front." AWC Translation of article from Revue Militaire, 1924. D551C35.

"The German Defeat in 1918: How Ludendorff Tried to Exonerate the Army." Army Quarterly (Jan 1941): pp. 263-78. Per.

Gies, Joseph. Crisis, 1918: The Leading Actors, Strategies, and Events in the German Gamble for Total Victory on the Western Front. NY: Norton, 1974. 288 p. D531G5. Erich von Ludendorff p.3

Joffre, Joseph J. The Two Battles of the Marne: The Stories of Marshal Joffre, General von Ludendorff, Marshal Foch, Crown Prince Wilhelm. NY: Cosmopolitan, 1927. 229 p. D545M3T8.

Kitchen, Martin. "Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Crisis of German Society, 1916-18." Men at War: Politics, Technology, and Innovation in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Precedent, 1982. 228 p. U42M43.

_____. The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff. NY: Holmes, 1976. 301 p. DD228.8K5.

Ludendorff, Erich. “German Experiences in Flanders and at Lens.” [Translation of a captured German Document] US War Dept, Feb 1918? 2 p. D531G4513.

Muller-Brandenburg, Hermann, & Ludendorff, Erich. Von der Marne zur Marne. Berlin: Sozialwissenschaft, 1919. 78 p. D531M84.

Murray, Williamson. “Ludendorff: Tactical Genius, Strategic Fool.” Military History (Sep/Oct 2008): pp. 42-49. Per.

Viereck, George S., editor. As They Saw Us: Foch, Ludendorff and Other Leaders Write Our War History. Garden City: Doubleday, 1929. 379 p. D570V5.

Wetzell, Georg. "From Falkenhayn to Hindenburg-Ludendorff: The Change Made in the German High Command in the Autumn of 1916 and the Campaign in Rumania." AWC translation, 1935. 41 p. D531W413.