The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
ISBN: 9780061228599 | 0061228591
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Harpercollins
Pub. Date: 5/17/2011
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This is the first one-volume history of World War II that I'd really place in a category of reevaluation by an author who views the war from a comfortable distance in time, but then I'm not expert, not even, really, an amateur aficionado even though I've read a lot about the war, including biographies of the personalities and memoirs by the participants. Roberts' thesis is that the Allies did not so much win the war as Hitler lost it, in large part by making independent judgments based on intuition and ideology. He was not a military strategist and didn't trust anyone who was. The smarter his generals, the more likely he was to fire them, as he did von Rundstedt and Guderian more than once, or ignore them when he didn't like their advice as he often did von Manstein who was maybe his best strategist.
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| List of Maps | p. xv |
| Preface | p. liii |
| Prelude: The Pact | p. 1 |
| Onslaught | |
| Four Invasions: September 1939-April 1940 | p. 15 |
| Führer Imperator: May-June 1940 | p. 48 |
| Last Hope Island: June 1940-June 1941 | p. 87 |
| Contesting the Littoral: September 1939-June 1942 | p. 119 |
| Kicking in the Door: June-... MORE | p. 136 |
| Tokyo Typhoon: December 1941-May 1942 | p. 185 |
| Climacteric | |
| The Everlasting Shame of Mankind: 1939-1945 | p. 219 |
| Five Minutes at Midway: June 1942-October 1944 | p. 251 |
| Midnight in the Devil's Gardens: July 1942-May 1943 | p. 281 |
| The Motherland Overwhelms the Fatherland: January 1942-February 1943 | p. 315 |
| The Waves of Air and Sea: 1939-1945 | p. 346 |
| Up the Wasp-Waist Peninsula: July 1943-May 1945 | p. 375 |
| Retribution | |
| A Salient Reversal: March-August 1943 | p. 409 |
| The Cruel Reality: 1939-1945 | p. 429 |
| Norman Conquest: June-August 1944 | p. 461 |
| Western Approaches: August 1944-March 1945 | p. 491 |
| Eastern Approaches: August 1943-May 1945 | p. 520 |
| The Land of the Setting Sun: October 1944-September 1945 | p. 564 |
| Conclusion: Why Did the Axis Lose the Second World War? | p. 578 |
| Notes | p. 609 |
| Bibliography | p. 648 |
| Index | p. 677 |
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