"German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . .  The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany."

Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000

"This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, German Ways of War offers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.”

Eric Rentschler, author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present