The German Army Guerrilla Warfare Pocket Manual 1939–45

Charles Melson

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English

Casemate Publishers
01 October 2019

Second World War; Irregular or guerrilla forces & warfare

Series: Pocket Manual

This Pocket Manual draws on previous German writing such as Kleinkrieg to analyse the German experience in suppressing rebellion in World War II.

While small wars are not new, how they should be fought by a modern industrial nation is still very much a matter for debate. It is thus worth paying heed now, to the experiences of another power which once encountered the same problems. This pocket manual examines German analysis of the problem, covering experiences from the Napoleonic era to the Third Reich, based upon the historical analysis, Kleinkrieg, provided to the German High Command by Arthur Ehrhardt in 1935 (republished in 1942 and 1944), and the Bandenbekampfung (Fighting the Guerrilla Bands) document provided to Germany's OKW in 1944. In both, conditions that were specific to broader military operations were separated from circumstances in occupation campaigns, and the new background in the German experience in suppressing rebellion in World War II is presented. Avoiding ideological biases, this manual examines the purely military problem as seen by professionals. Rediscovered and presented in English, these German thoughts on how best to fight small wars have been edited and annotated by Charles D. Melson, former Chief Historian for the US Marine Corps.

AUTHOR: Charles D. Melson was the Chief Historian for the US Marine Corps, at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia. Chuck also served as a joint historian with the US Central Command and US Special Operations Command. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several official publications and series, and was the recipient of the General Edwin Simmons-Henry Shaw Award for public historians and the General Leonard Chapman Medal. His education includes degrees in Liberal Arts from St. John College, Annapolis, and in History and Fine Arts from Sonoma State University, California. Chuck and his family currently live on Kent Island in Maryland.

40 illustrations

By: Charles Melson
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
ISBN: 9781612007977
ISBN 10: 161200797X
Series: Pocket Manual
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Charles D. Melson was the Chief Historian for the US Marine Corps, at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia. Chuck also served as a joint historian with the US Central Command and US Special Operations Command. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several official publications and series, and was the recipient of the General Edwin Simmons-Henry Shaw Award for public historians and the General Leonard Chapman Medal. His education includes degrees in Liberal Arts from St. John College, Annapolis, and in History and Fine Arts from Sonoma State University, California. Chuck and his family currently live on Kent Island in Maryland.

Reviews for The German Army Guerrilla Warfare Pocket Manual 1939–45

"""a highly accessible introduction to an important, but frequently neglected, aspect of German military history as well for those interested in guerrilla warfare.""--Bruce I. Gudmundsson, PhD, U.S. Marine Corps University, author of ""On Artillery"" ""contains a wealth of informative detail in a readable form and the fact that it pulls together several core strands and assessments of the German approach to COIN operations within one relatively succinct book is admirable.""--David Stone, author of ""Fighting for the Fatherland: Hitler's Army 1939-1945"" ""The German attitude to guerrilla war was far more complex than stereotypical brutality for the sake of brutality.""--Stephen G. Fritz, PhD, author of ""Ostkrieg"""