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Inside Hitler's High Command. By Geoffrey P. Megargee. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. ISBN 0-7006-1187-8. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xviii, 327. $17.95.
Geoff Megargee's Inside Hitler's High Command presents the most balanced and insightful English-language dissection of the inner workings of the German High Command during the Second World War. Megargee successfully challenges the distorted, self-serving, postwar memoirs of the German generals as he demonstrates that Hitler's senior military advisers were as strategically myopic as their Fuhrer and that they share blame both for Germany's ruthless war of aggression and for the disastrous consequences it wrought on the world.
Megargee subtly traces the myriad petty jealousies, the interservice rivalries, and the pernicious ravages of National Socialism that...