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Zusatztext 'worth waiting for ... its contributors ... do a truly commendable job of analysing the receptivity of Germans to the martial spirit ... Handsomely produced and smoothly translated ... the first two installments of Germany and the Second World War can be warmly recommended to the broad readership they deserve.'Marilyn Shevin Coetzee! Institute for Advanced Study! Princeton! History! Summer 1992 Informationen zum Autor Edited by Klaus A. Maier, Horst Rohde, Bernd Stegemann, and Hans Umbreit >Translated from German by Dean S. McMurray, P.S. Falla, and Ewald Osers Klappentext An attempt has been made to describe the military events of the war with exactitude, albeit concisely, so as to facilitate a critical appraisal of them. Numerous maps, tables, and statistics are also provided for this purpose. Zusammenfassung Surveys the first year of the war begun by Nazi Germany. The authors examine the train of interconnected political and military events, and set military operations against the background of Hitler's war policy and general aims, both immediate and long term. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of diagrams; List of maps; Notes on the authors; Note on the translation; Abbreviations; Glossary of German terms; Introduction; Bernd Stegemann: Part I. Politics and warfare in the first phase of the German offensive; Klaus A. Maier & Bernd Stegemann: Part II. Action plans and situation assessments of Luftwaffe and navy before the outbreak of war; Horst Rohde: Part III. Hitler's first blitzkrieg and its consequences for North-eastern Europe; Bernd Stegemann: Part IV. The first phase of the war at sea up to the Spring of 1940; Klaus A. Maier & Bernd Stegemann: Securing the Northern flank of Europe; Hans Umbreit: Part VI. The battle for hegemony in Western Europe; Klaus A. Maier: Part VII. The operational air war until the Battle of Britain; Bernd Stegemann: Part VIII. The second phase of the war at sea (until the Spring of 1941); Hans Umbreit & Klaus A. Maier: Part IX. Direct strategy against Britain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of persons...
