All just grandiose plans and talk: The destruction of Oswald Pirow's reputation as Minister of Defence, 1940
The popular perception of Oswald Pirow is that of an incompetent Minister of Defence, much derided for his bush carts pulled by oxen in the era of the blitzkrieg doctrine of dive-bombers and tanks. However, this was not the perception of him in the years between 1933 and 1939. When Pirow became Mini...
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| Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Scientia Militaria |
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| Online Access: | https://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1292 |