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Title

Leutnant Werner Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg : von München nach Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1904 / Gertrud Marchand-Volz.

Author

Marchand-Volz, Gertrud.

Publication

Windhoek, Namibia : Verlag der Namibia Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, c1998.

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Details

Description

vii, 251 p. : ill., maps (1 folded); 22 cm.

Summary

The Herero-German war is arguably the most-researched aspect of Namibia's colonial history, and yet this book, based on a brief correspondence and augmented by extensive background research, provides a refreshingly new, human approach to the Germancamapign against the Herero people. Though seen through German eyes, it is not an acount of battles, of victors and vanquished, or glory. For the German officer whose brief participation in the campaign is traced in this book, the dream of glory becomes a sobering experience of life in the field, of inadequate logistics and communication, of thirst, hunger, boredom and disease, and his experience is the thread on which this behind-the-battlefields study is strung. (publisher's catalogue).

Alternative Title

• Werner Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg : Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1904
• Werner Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg : Deutsch-Südwestafrika, 1904

Subject

• Schenk von Stauffenberg, Werner, 1878-1904
• 1884-1915
• Germans > Namibia > History
• Namibia > History > 1884-1915

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• 1. Aufl. published in 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and indexes.

ISBN

999167022X

OCLC

• 33967379
• SCSB-12593099

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library