LEADER 04408nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910807731203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04130-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674041301 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786739 035 $a(EBL)3300332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11214511 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237876 035 $a(PQKB)11466039 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300332 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315836 035 $a(OCoLC)923110675 035 $a(DE-B1597)574655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674041301 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300332 035 $a(OCoLC)1248759267 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786739 100 $a19991221d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA war to be won $efighting the Second World War /$fWilliamson Murray, Allan R. Millett 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (736 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-00163-X 311 $a0-674-00680-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 613-637) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPREFACE -- $tCONTENTS -- $tMAPS -- $t1 Origins of a Catastrophe -- $t2 The Revolution in Military Operations, 1919-1939 -- $t3 German Designs, 1939-1940 -- $t4 Germany Triumphant, 1940 -- $t5 Diversions in the Mediterranean and Balkans, 1940-1941 -- $t6 Barbarossa, 1941 -- $t7 The Origins of the Asia-Pacific War, 1919-1941 -- $t8 The Japanese War of Conquest, 1941-1942 -- $t9 The Asia-Pacific War, 1942-1944 -- $t10 The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943 -- $t11 Year of Decision for Germany, 1942 -- $t12 The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1941-1945 -- $t13 The Destruction of Japanese Naval Power, 1943-1944 -- $t14 The Killing Time, 1943-1944 -- $t15 The Invasion of France, 1944 -- $t16 The End in Europe, 1944-1945 -- $t17 The Destruction of the Japanese Empire, 1944-1945 -- $t18 The End of the Asia-Pacific War, 1945 -- $t19 Peoples at War, 1937-1945 -- $t20 The Aftermath of War -- $tEpilogue: In Retrospect -- $tAppendixes: -- $tNotes -- $tSuggested Reading -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aIn the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications. A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II-from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945-for students, scholars, and general readers alike. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aHistory, Modern$y20th century 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aHistory, Modern 676 $a940.53 700 $aMurray$b Williamson$0675617 701 $aMillett$b Allan Reed$0503102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807731203321 996 $aA war to be won$94064547 997 $aUNINA