"Stolfi makes an excellent case...His book is a
work of scholarship, backed to the hilt by contemporary sources."--Rapport
If you believe most experts, Germany's chances of winning World
War II effectively ended with their invasion of Soviet Russia in
June 1941. They claim that Russia was simply too vast, its army
too huge, its weather too forboding. ...In this intriguing book,
R.H.S. Stolfi, Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at
the Naval Postgraduate School, offers a fascinating new hypothesis:
the German Army had the men, the materials, and the generalship
to achieve a complete and total victory in the East by October 1941.
It was Adolf Hitler's inability to leave the World War I siege mentality
behind or to fully understand blitzkrieg tactics that cost his army
its momentum toward Moscow and doomed Operation Barbarossa. ...Stolfi
looks at the battle for Russia as it might have been, backed by
original Wehrmacht operational records and other documentation,
using detailed overlay maps to illustrate that distance was not
a major reason for defeat. He shows how the Germans could have captured
Moscow and the transportation hub of Gorky to effectively throttle
Soviet re-mobilization. A truly fascinating "what-if" scenario!
Classic Battles: Normandy 1944
Allied Landings and Breakout
Author: Stephen
Badsey
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISDN : 1855329492(reprint)
Published : 1990, 1997
Part of the Classic Battle Series
Table Of Contents
The Origins of the Battle
The Opposing Commanders
The German Commanders
The Allied Commanders
The Opposing Armies
The German Forces
The Allied Forces
The Opposing Plans
The Germans' Plans
The Allies' Plans
The Battle of Normandy
The Allied Landings, 6 to 7 June
Securing the Beachhead, 7 to 17 June
The Break-In, 18 to 24 June
The Breakthrough, 25 June to 10 July
The Breakout, 10 July to 5 August
The Exploitation, 5 to 11 August
The Encirclement, 11to 25 August
The Aftermath of the Battle
Chronology
A Guide to Further Reading
The Battlefield Today/Wargaming Normandy/High Command/Tactical
Games
In Conclusion
Total pages = 96
Description
D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation
in history. From ports and harbors on the southern coast of England,
an armada of troopships and landing craft launched the Allied return
to mainland Europe. This assault was preceded by airborne landings
at key sites and accompanied by massive air support. Stephen Badsey
provides a concise account of "Operation Overlord", from the fiercely
contested landings, to the struggle to capture Caen, the "Cobra"
offensive and the dramatic pursuit of the Germans to the Seine River.
Navies of World War
2
Author: Anthony
Preston
Publisher: PRC Publishing Ltd
ISDN : ?????
Published : 1989, 1998
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Royal Navy 1939-41
The Italian and French Navies
Naval Operations ( September 1939-
December 1941)
The German Navy
The US Navy
The Imperial Japanes navy
The Battle of the Atlantic
Amphibious Warfare
Midway to Okinawa
Conclusion / index / acknowledgements
Total pages : 221 pages
Decription:
The role of Allied naval forces in World I War 11 was decisive. The
invasion of Europe in 1944 could only have been made possible by the
maintenance of a continuing flow of food and war materiel across the
Atlantic. Germany almost won the Battle of the Atlantic with the U-Boat
campaign by March 1943. If the flow of goods to Britain had been cut
off, the opening of a second front in Europe would have been impossible.
But the convoys, destroyer escorts, and cruisers of the Royal Navy
and the US Navy won out, making the amphibious assault on Normandy
possible. To an even greater extent, in the war in the Pacific the
American Navy, having stopped the Imperial Japanese Navy at the battles
of the Coral Sea and Midway, slowly and inexorably, through naval
and aerial actions and amphibious assaults, broke through the ring
of islands forming the defense perimeter of Japan. Once the Philippine
campaign had been launched the attack on the Japanese home islands
was possible, an attack only halted after the effects of two atomic
bombs forced Japan to surrender. In Navies of World War 2 - An
Illustrated History, Antony Preston, a distinguished naval historian,
brilliantly and dramatically tells the story of the ships, weapons,
and men that stopped the advance of the Axis powers and then destroyed
them, in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean theatres of World
War 2.
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