Field-Marshal Kesselring: Great Commander or War Criminal?

by Andrew Sangster

Postwar analyses of Germany's last ever Field-Marshal, Albert Kesselring, have tended to be sympathetic and even adulatory in their appraisals. This book raises fundamental questions about their legitimacy, and challenges the widely held belief that he was one of the "greatest commanders to emerge" from the last World War. It illustrates that this reputation has been bolstered by the need to conceal the ineptitude and inexperience of Allied opposition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443874558
• ISBN13: 9781443874557
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.