Germany and Its Allies in World War II
Author: Burkhart Mueller-Hillebrand
Publisher: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Burkhart Mueller-Hillebrand
Publisher: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Antony Beevor
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 0316084077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Author: Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0191008761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and many times more destruction as had been caused in the previous conflict? In this Very Short Introduction, Gerhard L. Weinberg provides an introduction to the origins, course, and impact of the war on those who fought and the ordinary citizens who lived through it. Starting by looking at the inter-war years and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, he examines how the war progressed by examining a number of key events, including the war in the West in 1940, Barbarossa, The German Invasion of the Soviet Union, the expansion of Japan's war with China, developments on the home front, and the Allied victory from 1944-45. Exploring the costs and effects of the war, Weinberg concludes by considering the long-lasting mark World War II has left on society today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Burkhart Mueller Hillebrad
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1980-06-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780313270666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marina Cattaruzza
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 085745739X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. That alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are at the core of this volume. This “territorial revisionism” came to include all manner of political and military measures that attempted to change existing borders. Taking into account not just interethnic relations but also the motivations of states and nationalizing ethnocratic ruling elites, this volume reconceptualizes the history of East Central Europe during World War II. In so doing, it presents a clearer understanding of some of the central topics in the history of the war itself and offers an alternative to standard German accounts of the period and East European national histories.
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1107014751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An important new history of air and sea power in World War II and its decisive role in Allied victory.
Author: R. L. DiNardo
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at all. Focusing on Germany's military relations with Italy, Romania, Hungary, and Finland, Richard DiNardo unearths a wealth of information that reveals how the Axis coalition largely undermined Hitler's objectives from the Eastern Front to the Balkans, Mediterranean, and North Africa. DiNardo argues that the Axis military alliance was doomed from the beginning by a lack of common war aims, the absence of a unified command structure, and each nation's fundamental mistrust of the others. Germany was disinclined to make the kinds of compromises that successful wartime partnerships demanded and, because Hitler insisted on separate pacts with each nation, Italy and Finland often found themselves conducting counterproductive parallel wars on their own. DiNardo's detailed assessments of ground, naval, and air operations reveal precisely why the Axis allies were so dysfunctional as a collective force, sometimes for seemingly mundane but vital reasons-a shortage of interpreters, for example. His analysis covers coalition warfare at every level, demonstrating that some military services were better at working with their allies than others, while also pointing to rare successes, such as Rommel's effective coordination with Italian forces in North Africa. In the end, while some individual Axis units fought with distinction—if not on a par with the vaunted Wehrmacht—and helped Germany achieve some of its military aims, the coalition's overall military performance was riddled with disappointments. Breaking new ground, DiNardo's work enlarges our understanding of Germany's defeat while at the same time offering a timely reminder of the challenges presented by coalition warfare.
Author: Ian Ona Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0190675144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pre-publication subtitle: Soviet-German military cooperation in the interwar period.
Author: Burkhart Mueller-Hillebrand
Publisher: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: R. J. Overy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780393316193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century."--Sunday Times (London)