TY - BOOK AU - ASPREY Robert B TI - The German High Command at war: Hindenburg and Ludendorff conduct World War I SN - 0688128424 (pbk.) PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - William Morrow & Co Inc KW - FIRST WORLD WAR KW - LEADERSHIP KW - GERMANY N2 - The double biography sheds new light on Germany's conduct in WW I and on the character of the legendary General Staff. Most interestingly, Asprey seeks to explain Germany's disastrous defeat as a result of ``expanded military egos unchecked by civil authority ER -