The Soviet-East German Military Alliance
- ISBN-10
- 0521365627
- ISBN-13
- 9780521365628
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Douglas A. Macgregor
Description
The German Democratic Republic's emergence as the key political player within the Warsaw Pact has intensified debates concerning the critical East German military role in Soviet strategy for the future of Eastern Europe. Douglas Macgregor traces the origins of current collaboration to earlier forms of Russo-German military alliance.
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