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This study describes not only what happened from the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the surrender of Germany eleven months later, but why it happened. While an enormous amount has been written about this campaign, most of it focuses on a single army or an individual battle. Levine stresses a truly integrated approach that combines both strategy and tactics and covers the land, sea, and air efforts ...

"[Zhukov] had a reputation for utter determination and ruthlessness in achieving his objectives, regardless of the cost in human lives, and for demanding instant and absolute obedience to orders. In an army of millions the keys to success lay in strategy, logistics and determination, and Zhukov was master of all three. He lay great stress on personal reconnaissance and concise briefings. Having endured ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. xii, 277 pages, 5 pages of plates : maps ; 25 cm.

On 22 June 1941, German tanks rolled into the Soviet Union in an offensive which was to claim the lives of nearly 49 million people. Until the opening of Soviet archives, however, and the easing of their ideological grip, 'Operation Barbarossa' remained shrouded in mystery. Now, through the distinguished contributions of people like President Yeltsin's adviser, Colonel-General Dmitri Volkogonov, and ...

In Germany, forced labor as a component of a new strategy of persecution was discussed in fall 1938, and applied in the entire Reich after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. 190,000 Jews lived in Austria at the time, 90% of them in Vienna. The persecution of Austrian Jews was executed with particular violence. Terror, confiscation of Jewish property, arbitrary Aryanization, and mass dismissals characterized ...

Having already drawn both praise & controversy, this main selection for the Military Book Club continues to generate discussion among scholars & readers. Though histories of World War II are abundant, few of them examine the critical errors in Hitler's approach to the war that finally led to German defeat. Joining the ranks of "counterfactual" histories like the bestseller What If?, How Hitler Could ...

Overview: History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world. The first half of the book considers controversies surrounding the course of the war, with chapters ...

"The resistance in Western Europe has long been considered a national phenomenon that provided a significant contribution, both politically and militarily, to Nazi defeat in World War II. But the so-called "army of shadows" could never have risen without the support of London, first, and then of Washington. National factors thus played a preeminent part in the birth of the Resistance, while the British ...

The commanding general of the Allied Air Forces of the Southwest Pacific wrote a personal report, using as his framework the diary he kept throughout the war years. General Kenney was probably the most popular commander of American forces during World War Il, and readers will understand why his leadership and humanity inspired such courage and loyalty among the fliers of the Fifth and Thirteenth Air ...

Excerpts from the diaries of Lotte Warburg, daughter of a converted Jew and sister of Nobel prize winner Otto Warburg. As a half-Jew married to an Aryan, she was not affected by most of the Nazi racial laws; but because of the increasing coldness of her social circle in Bayreuth and her detestation of the Nazis, in 1937 she left with her family for the Netherlands. Her diaries include descriptions ...