My War Memories, 1914-1918, Volume I by General Ludendorff

Volume One, published by Hutchinson, 1919, hardcover, illustrated, 401 pages, condition: very good.

Erich  Ludendorff was a Prussian-born German general and politician. He achieved fame during World War I (19141918) for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the Great General Staff in 1916, Ludendorff oversaw virtually all decisions regarding Germany's strategy and war effort until the country's defeat in 1918. 

After the war (WW1), widely despised and with revolution breaking out, Ludendorff was hidden by his brother and a network of friends until he slipped out of Germany disguised, settling in a Swedish admirer's country home until the Swedish government asked him to leave in February 1919.

Within seven months, he wrote two volumes of detailed memoirs. Friends, led by Breucker, provided him with documents and negotiated with publishers. Groener characterized it as a showcase of his "caesar-mania". He was a brilliant general, according to John Wheeler-Bennett, stating that he was "certainly one of the greatest routine military organizers that the world has ever seen", but he also said he was a ruinous political meddler. The influential military analyst Hans Delbrück concluded that "The Empire was built by Moltke and Bismarck, destroyed by Tirpitz and Ludendorff."