This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did—and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winning the war than is often perceived.
Maps Tables Series Foreword Preface Key to Military Symbols Part I 1. The German War Machine on the Eve of War: Myth versus Reality 2. The Third Reich Ascendant: The Reasons Why Part II 3. Comparing the World's First Military Superpowers on the Eve of War 4. History's Bloodiest Conflict Begins 5. An Inconvenient Decision Confronts Germany's Masters of War 6. Another Roll of the Dice 7. Stalingrad in Context 8. The European War's Periphery 9. Seizing the Initiative: The Sword versus the Shield Part III 10. A New Perspective for Explaining D-Day's Outcome 11. Hitler's Greatest Defeat 12. How the Third Reich Staved Off Total Defeat during the Summer of 1944 13. End Game Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Steven D. Mercatante is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Globe at War, a website focused on exploring World War II.
This is an intriguing book that will surely be of great interest to
students of World War II. It offers a fresh analysis of why Germany
was beaten and poses reasons why it should have won.
*World War ll History*
Offers a fresh perspective on key events like the D-Day landings .
. . Mercatante's scholarship is undoubtedly on solid ground, which
makes this book a welcome addition to Second World War
bibliography.
*Military History Monthly*
Mercatante (independent scholar) challenges conventional wisdom
about Allied success in Europe through an impressive operational
overview of Operation Barbarossa and various battles on the Eastern
Front, D-Day, and the final drive into Germany. . . .
Recommended.
*Choice*
A thought-provoking book. . . . Mercatante's main purpose is to
counter widespread arguments that brute force was the main reason
for success in World War II. . . . The Germans, he argues,
repeatedly demonstrated that qualitative advantages could be more
important than quantitative superiority in men and materiel, and
that the Allied armies eventually won because they became better at
mobile and combined arms warfare than their enemies. . . .
[Mercatante's] case deserves to be heard.
*World War II Magazine*
Even those familiar with World War II scholarship will find here
analyses of economic and technological matters that historians have
often glossed over or mentioned only in passing. . . .There is . .
. much sound analysis scattered through this book.
*Michigan War Studies Review*
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