Explains how the Allies regained military superiority after 1942, and discusses important campaigns, naval battles, industrial strength, fighting ability, leadership, and moral issues
In this incisive analysis, we see exactly how the Allies won in WWII and regained military superiority and why they were able to do it.
World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light.
"Beginning with an investigation of the interwar neglect that left the Allied militaries incapable of defeating Nazi aggression at the start of World War II, Hart examines the wartime paths the Allies took toward improved military ...
25 Prime Minister's Personal Minute, 5 April 1941, ibid. 26 Alexander to Churchill, 9 April 1941, ibid. 27 Churchill to Alexander, 11 April 1941, ibid. 28 Pound to Alexander, 15 April 1941, ibid. 29 Alexander to Pound, 18 April 1941, ...
Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order.
How exactly doesone demolish a spiky tetrahedron with wire and mines dangling offit? Along with those early units wentanother groupof specialists, the naval “spotters,”to scramble onshore toanearby hilland control the firefromthe ...
“The history of WWII is riddled with might-have-beens that are amply explored in this stimulating collection of scholarly essays . . . illuminating.” —Publishers Weekly What if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939?
When did the UN start to tackle the international economic and social challenges of the post-war world? This is the first book to explore how the profound restructuring of the international world order was organized.
This authentic human story – Allied, German, French – has never fully been told.
The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war.