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# On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War (Cambridge Military Histories) Hardcover – 20 Oct. 2022

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A German view brings fresh insights
*by T***N on 31 March 2023*

Seeing the war from the 'other' perspective provides a fresh view, and things I didn't know. I hadn't realised that AH were, eventually, prepared to yield Trentino to Italy to keep Italy in the Triple Alliance! Nor that Matthias Erzberger, of whom I'm becoming a fan, was serious about no annexations, no indemnities. In the end the German leadership was only prepared to consider this when they were losing! And Brest-Litovsk showed them in their true colours. I think it refines my view of Fischer, but overall, the War I still lay at Imperial Germany's feet, with a contemptuous glance at the AH leadership which went to war over Serbia and couldn't even manage to beat them.Very worth a read. Even had a nice hat tip to my old Director of Studies, Norman Stone. I'm reading Stephenson's book on 1914-1918 as well.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ an interesting read the challenges existing thinking
*by A***D on 9 February 2023*

The basic premise of this book is that the outcome of the First World War was nothing like as clear cut for most of its duration.It was, as the author says in his title, on a knife edge.On balance, I think I agree with that premise.What is different about this book from many others, is that it looks at the situation from a Jerben perspective.With the research, the author has done, it is clear that both a German victory, and AP is much earlier than November 1918, was more possible than other histories have shown.So if we agree that the outcome of the war, either in a German victory or an earlier draw was more possible at different points in time, then the book is a useful contribution to discussion about the First World War.My only challenge with it, which is why I did not give it five stars, is that a fair bit of it is based on“if that happened “or “if the other might’ve happened “.A bit too much surmising for a genuinely great work of history.Well worth the read, though if you are interested in the first world war.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One for the ages
*by B***4 on 10 November 2022*

Disclaimer: Former student of Professor Afflerbach.Undoubtedly 'On a Knifes Edge' will become a core text for any historian worth his salt researching WWI. The book provides a premise, that of Germany's high chance of victory (or at least not a defeat), which directly challenges the often wrongly held mythos of the inevitably of German Defeat in WWI, after the commencement of the Schlieffen Plan.Through his book, Holger demonstrates the culmination of his life's work as he flawlessly weaves the events of the war, sentiments of the public and the importance of the individual to demonstrate, as the title of the book suggests, just how precarious the outcome of the First World War was even as it reached its epoch. Holger makes the most complex ideas so simple that it strikes the reader as so overtly obvious that to not have thought it previously seems an insult to oneself. He wastes no words as he takes you through 430 pages of indepth commentary of the journey of Imperial Germany during WWI making use of his prior research and unparalleled access to German sources.The future will see that any historian, amateur or professional, who truly deems himself an expert of WWI will have this book at the cornerstone of their understanding of the conflict.

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