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Written primarily for the police officer assigned to homicide investigation, it relates in clear, concise language the important medical aspects of violent death. The forensic pathologist will find content matter pointing out the mutual problems of field investigation on the autopsy examination. Social behaviorists such as psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers interested in the relationship of homicide to community and familial factors will find ample discussion of the conflicts, interests and attitudes that bear directly on homicide investigation

Thesoul of die Prussian army is in its officers,' wrote the Prussian general, military theorist, and writer Baron Colmar von der Goltz in his widely read bookThe Nation in Arms. These officers, he continued, must be recruited from the privileged social classes "who exercise even in ordinary life a natural superiority over the masses.' Goltz went on to underline the army's concern over restricting its leadership to the better elements of society when he cautioned that the nation's merchants, manufacturers, and private gentlemen were unlikely to provide good long-term officers.

"An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire--and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the subject, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 examines the most essential components of the imperial German military system, with an emphasis on such foundational areas as theory, doctrine, institutional structures, training, and the officer corps. In the period between 1871 and 1918, rapid technological development demanded considerable adaptation and change in military doctrine and planning. Consequently, the authors focus on theory and practice leading up to World War I and upon the variety of adaptations that became necessary as the war progressed--with unique insights into military theorists from Clausewitz to Moltke the Elder, Moltke the Younger, Schlichting, and Schlieffen. Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world. The book will prove indispensable to an understanding of the Imperial German Army."--

While a great deal of attention has been paid to the conduct of coalition warfare by the Allies in both world wars, very little has been done regarding the German side of the equation. This article takes a long view of Germany and the conduct of coalition warfare in the world wars. It seeks to examine comparatively the German experience in both world wars in this regard, and to draw some general conclusions. The article examines four broad areas of coalition warfare: prewar planning and preparations, accommodation of goals and needs to those of one's allies, execution of plans and adaptation to wartime circumstance, and maintaining trust and balance in the relationship. In all of these areas the German experience in both world wars was remarkably similar. Some of this was due to ideological factors, but cultural, educational and military factors all played a part as well. In this case, unlike other levels of war, the Germans learned almost nothing from their experience in the First World War. In both cases, the failure to conduct coalition warfare from a sound basis led to catastrophic failure.