Germany and the Second World War

NOTE EDITORE

Volume VI of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series deals with the extension of a European war into a global one in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the initiative to the Allies, and it represents, both in content and in composition, the climax and turning points of the war. An account is given of the development of the war at sea in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean until the spring of 1943, of the changeable course of events in the North African theatre of war until the establishment of the bridgehead in Tunisia, and finally of Hitler's 'second campaign' against the Soviet Union until the stabilization of the front following the catastrophe at Stalingrad. Moreover, the United States' transition to open belligerence, after Pearl Harbor, calls for an account of the political developments leading up to that point on the Japanese and the American sides. The opening of new theatres of operations in the Pacific and over Germany, owing to the intensified strategic aerial warfare of the Allies, along with the organization of the Reich's air defences are also treated.

SOMMARIO

1 - The anti-Hitler coalition2 - The coalition of the Tripartite Pact states1 - Potential sources of conflict2 - Japan's road to war3 - Pearl Harbor and the expansion of the Japanese sphere of control4 - The Pacific naval air battles in 1942 and their repercussions5 - Guadalcanal: The inception of the American counter-offensive in 19421 - The Atlantic in German and Allied strategy2 - Allied sea transport capacity as a strategic problem of the German war effort3 - The conduct of the war in the Atlantic and the coastal area4 - Operations on the northern flank of Europe1 - Doctrine and preparation of the strategic bombing war in Great Britain and the United States of America up to the beginning of the war2 - Air defence in the German air war doctrine and the build-up of the German air defences in peacetime3 - The beginnings of the strategic bombing war by the RAF, the German air defence, and American preparations for air war up to the end of 19414 - Allied strategic bombing and German air defence in 19425 - The situation of the Luftwaffe from 1942 to the beginning of 19431 - The opening of the second German-Italian offensive in North Africa, and the Battle of Malta2 - The advance to El-Alamein (Operation Theseus)3 - El Alamein4 - The allied landing in North-West Africa and the German-Italian Panzer Armies' retreat to Tunisia5 - The German occupation of Vichy France and the seizure of Toulon (Operations Anton and Lila, 11-27 November 1942)6 - The war at sea and the supply situation, 1942-19431 - Hitler's 'Second Campaign': military concept and strategic foundations2 - The mobilization of Germany's allies3 - The Spring battles of 19424 - The beginning of the summer offensive5 - The offensive into the Caucasus6 - Stalingrad7 - The annihilation of the Sixth Army8 - The winter battles of 19439 - The historical topos of the second campaign against the Soviet Union

AUTORE

Project co-ordinated by the Milit"argeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Translated from the German by Derry Cook-Radmore, John Brownjohn, Patricia Crampton, and Louise Willmot

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198738305
• Collana: Germany and the Second World War
• Dimensioni: 233 x 78.6 x 158 mm Ø 2028 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: numerous maps, figures and tables
• Pagine Arabe: 1410
• Traduttore: Cook-Radmore, Derry