Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 682 g
Volume II: Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe
Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 682 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-873834-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This is the second in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The volumes so far published have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War.
Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe surveys the first year of the war deliberately begun by Nazi Germany. The authors examine the train of interconnected political and military events, and set military operations against the background of Hitler's war policy and general aims, both immediate and long term. Their comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. The conflict took a course quite different from that which Hitler had intended, but nevertheless resulted in a series of conquests for the Third Reich. At the same time, the establishment of hegemony on the European continent confronted the aggressor with new problems.
Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of unparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Part I: Politics and warfare in the First Phase of the German Offensive
- Part II: Action Plans and Situation Assessments of the Luftwaffe and Navy before the Outbreak of War
- I: Klaus A. Maier: Total War and Operational Air Warfare
- II: Bernd Stegemann: Germany's Second Attempt to Become a Naval Power
- Part III: Hitler's First Blitzkrieg and its Consequences for North-eastern Europe
- I: Germany and Poland in the Prelude to the Second World War
- II: Military Preparations for a German-Polish War
- III: The Course of the Polish Campaign from 1 September to 6 October 1939
- IV: Consequences of the Military Events in the Autumn of 1939
- V: Development of the Situation in North-Eastern Europe: Effects of the Hitler-Stalin Pact
- Part IV: The First Phase of the War at Sea up to the Spring of 1940
- I: The War in the Baltic
- II: The War in the North Sea and the Arctic in 1939
- III: The Use of the Pocket Battleships against Enemy Shipping
- IV: The War in the North Sea and the Arctic in 1940
- V: Preparations for the Campaign in the West
- VI: The Mine War
- VII: The Submarine War
- Part V: Securing the Northern Flank of Europe
- I: Klaus A. Maier: German Strategy
- II: Klaus A. Maier: Allied Strategy
- III: Bernd Stegemann: Operation Weserubung
- IV: Bernd Stegemann: Securing Germany's Political and Military Hold on the Occupied Territory
- Part VI: The Battle for Hegemony in Western Europe
- I: Strategic Defence in the West
- II: Hitler's Decision to Attack the Western Powers
- III: Deployment and Strategy of the Western Powers until 10 May 1940
- IV: Policies and Defence Efforts of the Neutral Countries: Belgium, Holland, and Luxemburg
- V: German Victory in Western Europe
- Part VII: The Operational Air War until the Battle of Britain
- Part VIII: The Second Phase of the war at sea (until the Spring of 1941)
- I: The Submarine War
- II: Co-Operation with the Luftwaffe
- III: Armed Merchant Raiders in the War Against Shipping
- IV: The Use of Large Surface Ships
- V: The Organization of the German Navy in the West
- Part IX: Direct Strategy Against Britain
- I: Hans Umbreit: Churchill's Determination to Continue the War
- II: Hans Umbreit: Plans and Preparations for a Landing in England
- III: Klaus A. Maier: The Battle of Britain
- IV: Hans Umbreit: The Return to an Indirect Strategy Against Britain
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
