Hitler as Military Commander

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"Hitler. Was he the 'greatest strategic genius of all time, ' as Nazi propaganda had it? Or was he a facile amateur in military affairs ... as some of the German General Staff -- after the war had been lost -- sought to demonstrate? There are those who claim that, if Hitler had not interfered so continually and disastrously, the General Staff would have won World War II. About Hitler the politician there is general agreement, but what about Hitler the military commander ... John Strawson demonstrates how Hitler's insatiable preoccupation with war and conquest was translated into reality"--Jacket