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Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89048379770
Author : Andrew Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107661356
This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a 'peripheral' theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the 'Grand Alliance' in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.
Author : Allen Packwood
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473893917
An analytical investigation into Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s decision-making process during every stage of World War II. When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of Britain’s war effort. It also meant that he would be faced with many monumental challenges and utterly crucial decisions upon which the fate of Britain and the free world rested. With the limited resources available to the UK, Churchill had to pinpoint where his country’s priorities lay. He had to respond to the collapse of France, decide if Britain should adopt a defensive or offensive strategy, choose if Egypt and the war in North Africa should take precedence over Singapore and the UK’s empire in the East, determine how much support to give the Soviet Union, and how much power to give the United States in controlling the direction of the war. In this insightful investigation into Churchill’s conduct during the Second World War, Allen Packwood, BA, MPhil (Cantab), FRHistS, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, enables the reader to share the agonies and uncertainties faced by Churchill at each crucial stage of the war. How Churchill responded to each challenge is analyzed in great detail and the conclusions Packwood draws are as uncompromising as those made by Britain’s wartime leader as he negotiated his country through its darkest days.
Author : Ralph Francis Bennett
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081905569
Written by a man who was personally involved in handling the German Enigma decrypts from their first decodings until the end of World War II, this book reveals how Ultra-secret information on German plans and operations was used to thwart Hitler's ambitions.
Author : Richard M. Leighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Operation Overlord
ISBN : UIUC:30112105161134
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : LCCN:b68004286
Kortfattet beskrivelse af den engelske strategi på vestfronten og ved Middelhavet under 2. verdenskrig.
Author : Carlo D'Este
Publisher : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018951296
Recounts events in the Mediterranean during World War II, including how the inexperienced Americans gained combat experience and learned to work together with the British.
Author : Andrew Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 1107670918
This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a 'peripheral' theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the 'Grand Alliance' in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472145093
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost.. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States. In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically, and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices made, revealing their continued political resonances. Beginning with Appeasement and the Soviet-German pact as key strategic means, Black examines the consequences of the fall of France for the strategies of all the powers. He shows how Allied strategy-making was more effective at the Anglo-American level than with the Soviet Union, not only for ideological and political reasons, but also because the Americans and British had a better grasp of the global dimension. He explores how German and Japanese strategies evolved as the war went badly for the Axis powers, and discusses the extent to which seeking to mould the post-war world informed Allied strategic choices from 1943 onwards, and the role these played in post-war politics, notably in the Cold War. Strategy was a crucial tool not only for conducting the war; it remains the key to understanding it today.
Author : Thomas E. Griess
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780757001611
From the prewar development of the German war machine to the ultimate victory of the Allied coalition, here is an in-depth analysis of the battles that raged on the Western and Eastern Fronts. It examines the major strategies, the innovative tactics, and the new generation of weapons--along with the people who used them.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780757051609
*** OVER 210,000 WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES SETS IN PRINT *** From the prewar development of the German war machine to the ultimate victory of the Allied coalition, here is an in-depth analysis of the battles that raged on the Western and Eastern Fronts. It examines the major strategies, the innovative tactics, and the new generation of weapons—along with the people who used them.
Author : Horst Boog,Werner Rahn,Reinhard Stumpf,Bernd Wegner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191606847
This is the sixth volume in the comprehensive and authoritative series, Germany and the Second World War. It deals with the extension of a European into a global war 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. Series description This is the sixth in the magisterial ten-volume Germany and the Second World War series. The six volumes so far published in German take the story to 1943, and have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War from the German point of view. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of unparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
Author : Reynolds Mathewson Salerno
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801437725
Most international historians present the outbreak of World War II as the result of an irreconcilable conflict between Great Britain and Germany. This ubiquitous Anglo-German perspective fails to recognize complex causes and repercussions of international events, misappropriates historical responsibilities, and overlooks many global and imperial factors of the war's origins. Reynolds M. Salerno shows that the situation in the Mediterranean played a decisive role in the European drama of the late 1930s and profoundly influenced the manner in which the Second World War unfolded. Vital Crossroads is the result of the author's remarkable access to and extensive research in twenty-eight archives in five different countries. Concentrating on the period from the Mediterranean crisis of 1935 to Italy's declaration of war in June 1940, Salerno demonstrates that the international politics of pre-World War II Europe--particularly in the Mediterranean--can only be understood as the multilateral interaction of British, French, German, and Italian foreign and defense policies. Control of the Mediterranean, he asserts, was a central concern for the European powers in 1935-40, and a fundamental reason why Europe went to war and why the conflict unfolded as it did. As a result, France and Italy influenced and often determined the nature and direction of Allied and Axis policy to an extent disproportionate to their nations' military and economic strength.Salerno contends that the Allies' reluctance to take decisive action against Fascist Italy in 1939-40 contributed to the fall of France in 1940, Britain's desperate situation in 1940-41, and the post-war collapse of Britain as a world power. At a time when the Allied powers dreaded the ability of the German military to march across the European continent, they also feared that the Italian armed forces would strive to fulfill Mussolini's grand imperial ambitions in the Mediterranean.
Author : Richard Bosworth,Joseph Maiolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108406408
War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressing divergent claims to justice and controlling news from the front in order to sustain moral and influence international opinion. Part II looks at politics from the perspective of pre-war and wartime diplomacy as well as examining the way in which neutrals were treated and behaved. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of states, politics and ideology on the fate of individuals as occupied and liberated peoples, collaborators and resistors, and as British and French colonial subjects.
Author : Richard Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478212
Richard Hammond offers a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean region.