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.

Germany and the Second World War: Volume VI: The Global War

History

Boog, Horst

Rahn, Werner

Stumpf, Reinhard

Wegner, Bernd

Cook-Radmore, Derry

Europe

Oxford University Press

A comprehensive study of the military wing of one of the central organizations of the Nazi state, from its inception to Germany's capitulation. Considers the political background of its formation, and examines such aspects as the organizational structure, recruitment and training, ideology, and social composition. Translated from the 1982 German edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Waffen-Ss: Organization, Ideology and Function

Blackwell Pub.

Hitlers politische Soldaten, die Waffen-SS 1933-1945: Studien zu Leitbild, Struktur and Funktion einer nationalsozialistischen Elite (Sammlung Schöningh zur Geschichte und Gegenwart) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Schöningh

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