1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009606440403321

Autore

Elishakoff, Isaac

Titolo

Optimization and anti-optimization of structures under uncertainty / Isaac Elishakoff, Makoto Ohsaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Imperial College Press, 2010

ISBN

978-1-84816-477-2

Descrizione fisica

XXII, 424 p. : 25 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Ohsaki, Makoto

Disciplina

624

Locazione

FINBC

Collocazione

13 49 04

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795642303321

Autore

Lockenour Jay <1966->

Titolo

Dragonslayer : the legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich / / Jay Lockenour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5459-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Cornell scholarship online

Classificazione

NP 4617

Disciplina

355.0092

Soggetti

Generals - Germany

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

Germany History 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mythic Life : An Introduction -- Victor of Liege and Tannenberg -- The Feldherr : Ludendorff in the Supreme Command -- Putschist : Kapp and Beer Hall Putsches -- Prophet : Tannenberg League and the League for the Germanic Understanding of God -- Duellist : Hitler, Hindenburg, Ludendorff -- Ludendorff in the Third Reich -- Siegfried's Death -- Epilogue : Kriemhild's Reven.

Sommario/riassunto

In this biography of Erich Ludendorff, the author complicates the classic depiction of this German World War I hero. Ludendorff created for himself a persona that secured his place as one of the most prominent Germans of the 20th century. With boundless energy & an obsession with detail, Ludendorff ascended to power & solidified a stable, public position among Germany's most influential. Between 1914 & his death in 1937, he was a war hero, a dictator, a right-wing activist, a failed putschist, a presidential candidate, a publisher, & a would-be prophet. He guided Germany's effort in the Great War between 1916 & 1918 &, importantly, set the tone for a politics of victimhood & revenge in the postwar era. This book explores Ludendorff's life after 1918, arguing that the strange or unhinged personal traits most historians attribute to mental collapse were integral to Ludendorff's political strategy.