Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
PART I: POLICY AND STRATEGY 1941-1943: FROM CONTINENTALATLANTIC TO GLOBAL WAR
1: The anti-Hitler coalition
2: The coalition of the Tripartite Pact states
PART II: THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
1: Potential sources of conflict
2: Japan's road to war
3: Pearl Harbor and the expansion of the Japanese sphere of control
4: The Pacific naval air battles in 1942 and their repercussions
5: Guadalcanal: The inception of the American counter-offensive in 1942
PART III: THE WAR AT SEA IN THE ATLANTIC AND IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN
1: The Atlantic in German and Allied strategy
2: Allied sea transport capacity as a strategic problem of the German war effort
3: The conduct of the war in the Atlantic and the coastal area
4: Operations on the northern flank of Europe
PART IV: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN STRATEGIC AIR WAR OVER EUROPE, AND GERMAN AIR DEFENCE
1: Doctrine and preparation of the strategic bombing war in Great Britain and the United States of America up to the beginning of the war
2: Air defence in the German air war doctrine and the build-up of the German air defences in peacetime
3: The beginnings of the strategic bombing war by the RAF, the German air defence, and American preparations for air war up to the end of 1941
4: Allied strategic bombing and German air defence in 1942
5: The situation of the Luftwaffe from 1942 to the beginning of 1943
PART V: THE WAR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA 1942-1943: OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
1: The opening of the second German-Italian offensive in North Africa, and the Battle of Malta
2: The advance to El-Alamein (Operation Theseus)
3: El Alamein
4: The allied landing in North-West Africa and the German-Italian Panzer Armies' retreat to Tunisia
5: The German occupation of Vichy France and the seizure of Toulon (Operations Anton and Lila, 11-27 November 1942)
6: The war at sea and the supply situation, 1942-1943
PART VI: THE WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, 1942-1943
1: Hitler's 'Second Campaign': military concept and strategic foundations
2: The mobilization of Germany's allies
3: The Spring battles of 1942
4: The beginning of the summer offensive
5: The offensive into the Caucasus
6: Stalingrad
7: The annihilation of the Sixth Army
8: The winter battles of 1943
9: The historical topos of the second campaign against the Soviet Union
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF PERSONS

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Brilliant analysis of how Germany fought its war Max Hastings, Evening Standard A meticulous, scholarly perspective on the conflict from Germany's side Max Hastings, Evening Standard