Publisher's Synopsis
Marcus Funck examines the history of the Prussian nobility in the process of military modernization that took place between 1860 with the Prussian military reform and the reintroduction of compulsory military service in 1935. Using innovative methods, he develops a composite biography of the Prussian and German military elite during the period of the "socialization of violence," that is, mobilization of all societal resources for war.