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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822287903321

Titolo

Germany and the Second World War . Volume VI The global war: widening of the conflict into a world war and the shift of the Iniative 1941-1943 / / edited by the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon Press

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

ISBN

0-19-159035-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1352 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Germany and the Second World War ; ; Volume 6

Altri autori (Persone)

BoogHorst <1928->

Disciplina

940.53

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Germany

Germany History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTES ON THE AUTHORS; NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION; ABBREVIATIONS; GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN TERMS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Policy and Strategy 1941-1943: From Continental-Atlantic to Global War; PART II: The War in the Pacific; PART III: The War at Sea in the Atlantic and in the Arctic Ocean; PART IV: The Anglo-American Strategic Air War over Europe and German Air Defence; PART V: The War in the Mediterranean Area 1942-1943: Operations in North Africa and the Central Mediterranean; PART VI: The War against the Soviet Union 1942-1943; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY;  INDEX OF PERSONS

Sommario/riassunto

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.