The Politics of the Prussian Army won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Society in 1956. Editorial Reviews Review Professor Craig has now given us a definitive work which covers the whole field in impressive detail and with an awe-inspiring apparatus of scholarship.–Michael Howard, The New Statesman and Nation A powerful study…manifestly the fruit of years of research and reflection,…an achievement in which American scholarship can take legitimate pride. Moreover, it is no mere chronicle of the past, but is pregnant with contemporary significance.– Telford Taylor, The New York Times About the Author Gordon A. Craig is at Stanford University (Emeritus). .