Craig G.A. The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1945

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. - 538 pgs. Professor Craig's study describes the influence exerted in German domestic and foreign policy by the Prussian-German army, "the strongest supporter of the monarchial state and the most effective and inveterate opponent of political change." It traces the three-hundred-year ascendancy of the army from the founding of the Hohenzollern military state by the Great Elector and King, Frederick William I, and describes its stubborn resistance to liberal and democratic reform movements and its successful maintenance of authority until it was outmaneuvered and forced into humiliating subordination by Adolf Hitler. This book also offers new documentation of the critical years of the Weimar Republic.