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The Second World War

Volume I
The German War 1939–1942

JEREMY BLACK

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Series preface; Introduction; The forgotten campaign: Poland's military aviation in September 1939, Michael Alfred Peszke; A reassessment of Anglo-French strategy during the phony war, 1939–40, Talbot Imlay; The Winter War in global perspective, Ohto Manninen; The German invasion of Norway, 1940, Adam Claasen; Myth of the blitzkrieg, Robert A. Doughty; Myths of the blitzkrieg – the enduring mythology of the 1940 campaign, James Corum; The battle of Gembloux, 14–15 May 1940: the blitzkrieg checked, Jeffrey A. Gunsberg; The fall of France, 1940, Martin S. Alexander; Strategy and scapegoatism: reflections on the French national catastrophe, 1940, Nicole Jordan; Colonel Blimp and the British army: British divisional commanders in the war against Germany ,1939–1945, David French; Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy's role in World War II, James J. Sadkovich; The Italo-Greek war in context: Italian priorities and Axis diplomacy, James J. Sadkovich; Re-evaluating who won the Italo-British naval conflict, 1940–42, James J. Sadkovich; Could Admiral Gensoul have averted the tragedy of Mers-el-Kébir?, Philippe Lasterle; British subversion in French East Africa, 1941–2: SOE's Todd mission, E.D.R. Harrison; Both sides of the hill: intelligence in the Crete and Arnhem campaigns, Richard Wilkinson; The Red Army at war 1941–1945: sources and interpretations, David M. Glantz; Recent literature on the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941–1945, Alexander Hill; Antonescu's eagles against Stalin's falcons: the Romanian Air Force, 1920–1941, Alexander Statiev; Hitler's quest for oil: the impact of economic considerations on military strategy, 1941–42, Joel Hayward; A case study in early joint warfare: an analysis of the Wehrmacht's Crimean campaign of 1942, Joel Hayward; Too little, too late: an analysis of Hitler's failure in August 1942 to damage Soviet oil production, Joel Hayward; The myth of Stalingrad, Jay W. Baird. Name index.

Prezzo: £125.00
Pagine: 584
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 0754626342
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007

Volume II
The German War 1943–1945

JEREMY BLACK

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Series preface; Introduction; Unexplored questions about the German military during World War II, Gerhard L. Weinberg; Warlord Hitler: some points reconsidered; M. van Creveld; 1 October 1942: Adolf Hitler, wehrmacht officer policy and social revolution, Macgregor Knox; Kursk – 60 years on, Karl-Heinz Frieser, Pavel Kulikov, Christopher Bellamy, Geoffrey Vesy Holt and John Hughes-Wilson; Wehrmacht security regiments in the Soviet partisan war, 1943, Ben Shepherd; The infrastructure of communications intelligence: the allied D/F network and the Battle of the Atlantic, David Syrett; The challenge of modernization: the Royal Canadian Navy and antisubmarine weapons, 1944–1945, William Rawling; A question of success: tactical air doctrine and practice in North Africa, 1942–43, B. Michael Bechthold; The desertion crisis in Italy, Anon.; SOE's achievements: Operation Gunnerside reconsidered, Nigel West; Combined amphibious doctrine for the allied invasion of Europe: tactical surprise vs. fire power, Adrian R. Lewis; D-Day – 60 years on, Jeremy Black; 'Tommy is no soldier': the morale of the Second British Army in Normandy, June –August 1944, David French; 'The development of an unbeatable combination': US close air support in Normandy, B. Michael Bechthold; Best-laid plans: Guy Simonds and Operation Totalize, 7–10 August 1944, Jody Perrun; Montgomery, morale, casualty conservatism and 'colossal cracks': 21st Army group's operational technique in North West Europe, 1944–45, Stephen Hart; Armageddon: an interview with Sir Max Hastings, Donald A. Yerxa; Victims of bombing and retaliation, Nicholas Stargardt; 'Ein volk steht auf': the German volkssturm and Nazi strategy, 1944–5, David K. Yelton; The ideology of self-destruction: Hitler and the choreography of defeat, Bernd Wegner; Forcible population transfers – a flawed legacy or an unavoidable necessity in protracted ethnic conflicts? The case of the Sudeten Germans, Martin D. Brown; The crack in the plaster: crisis in Romania and the origins of the Cold War. Alfred J. Rieber; S.L.A. Marshall and the ratio of fire, Roger J. Spiller; The role of the Mexican expeditionary air force in World War II: late, limited, but symbolically significant, Stephen I. Schwab; Name index.

Prezzo: £115.00
Pagine: 484
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 0754626377
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007

Volume III
The Japanese War 1941–1945

JEREMY BLACK

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Series preface; Introduction; Khalkhin-Gol: the forgotten war, Amnon Sella; Planning for an unpredictable war: British intelligence assessments and the war against Japan, 1937–45,Douglas Ford; The evolution of fleet tactical doctrine in the US Navy, 1922–1941, Trent Hone; In support of the battle line: gunnery's influence on the development of carrier aviation in the US Navy, Thomas Wildenberg; Major-General George Grunert, WPO-3, and the Philippine Army, 1940–1941, Richard B. Meixsel; Army, air force and navy air force: Japanese aviation and the opening phase of the war in the Far East, A.D. Harvey;Operation Dovetail: bungled Guadalcanal rehearsal, July 1942, William H. Bartsch; Walter Krueger, Douglas MacArthur and the Pacific war: the Wadke-Sarmi campaign as a case study, Kevin C. Holzimmer; Japanese defense of Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 December 1944–4 September 1945, B. David Mann; No quarter: the Pacific battlefield, Eric Bergerud; Language at war: US Marine Corps Japanese language officers in the Pacific war, Roger V. Dingman; Burma memoirs and the reality of war, Stanley `L. Falk; A paper tiger: the Indian National Army in battle, 1944–1945, Chandar S. Sundaram; Breaking the cycle of Iwo Jima mythology: a strategic study of Operation Detachment, Robert S. Burrell; Diary of first lieutenant Sugihara Kinryu: Iwo Jima, January–February 1945, Stephen J. Lofgren; War's end on Okinawa: in search of Captain Robert Fowler, Matthew Stevenson; Compelling Japan's surrender without the A-bomb, Soviet entry, or invasion: reconsidering the US bombing survey's early-surrender conclusions, Barton J. Bernstein; Shaping the past battlefield, 'for the future': the United States strategic bombing survey's evaluation of the American air war against Japan, Gian P. Gentile; Truman and the A-bomb: targeting noncombatants, using the bomb and his defending the 'decision', Barton J. Bernstein. Name index.

Prezzo: £125.00
Pagine: 562
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 0754626407
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007

Volume IV
The Home Fronts

JEREMY BLACK

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Series preface; Introduction; Mobilization for total war in Germany, 1939–41, R.J. Overy; Big business in the Third Reich, V.R. Berghahn; The red flag and the cross: new writing on the German resistance, E.D.R. Harrison; The role of military administration in German-occupied Belgium, 1940–1944, Jay Howard Geller; The Third Reich reflected: German civil administration in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941–44, Jonathan Steinberg; Resistance in Albania during the Second World War: partisans, nationalists and the SOE, Bernd J. Fischer; Resiting French resistance, H.R. Kedward; 'Partisanes' and gender politics in Vichy France, Paula Schwartz; War and social history: Britain and the home front during the Second World War, Jose Harris; British agricultural archives in the Second World War, John Martin; The Church of England and the obliteration bombing of Germany in the Second World War, Andrew Chandler; A schicksalsgemeinschaft? Allied bombing, civilian morale, and social dissolution in Nuremburg, 1942–1945, Neil Gregor; British military information management techniques and the South Asian soldier: Eastern India during the Second World War, Sanjoy Bhattcharya; Jim Crow and Uncle Sam: the Tuskegee flying units and the US Army air forces in Europe during World War II, William Alexander Percy; The Detroit race riot of 1943, H. Sitkoff ; The New York public library's map division goes to war,1941–45, Alice C. Hudson; Reading between enemy lines: armed services editions and World War II, Christopher P. Loss; Wartime San Juan, Puerto Rico: the forgotten American home front, 1941–1945, Edwin L. Dooley Jr; 'The illusion of remembrance': the Karl Diehl affair and the memory of National Socialism in Nuremberg, 1945–1999, Neil Gregor. Name index.

Prezzo: £115.00
Pagine: 498
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 0754626431
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007

Volume V
The Holocaust

JEREMY BLACK

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Ideas, contexts and the pursuit of genocide, Mark Roseman; From anti-Semitism to extermination, Saul Friedländer; Fascism, totalitarianism and the Holocaust: reflections on current interpretations of National Socialist anti-Semitism, Meir Michaelis; The devil in the details: the concentration camp as historical construct, Omer Bartov; Representing the Holocaust: ideology, ethics, and the theory of multilevel systems, André Mineau; Before the 'Final Solution': the Judenpolitik of the SD, 1935–1938, Michael Wildt; Nazi ghettoization policy in Poland, Christopher R. Browning; Nazi resettlement policy and the search for a solution to the Jewish question, 1939–1941, Christopher R. Browning; Nisko, the first experiment in deportation, Jonny Moser; Germans, Ukrainians and Jews: ethnic politics in Heeresgebiet Süd, June–December 1941, Truman O. Anderson; Wehrmacht reprisal policy and the mass-murder of Jews in Serbia, Christopher R. Browning; Two decisions concerning the 'Final Solution to the Jewish question': deportations to Lódz and mass murder in Chelmno, Peter Witte; A final Hitler decision for the 'Final Solution'? The Reigner telegram reconsidered, Christopher R. Browning; Improvised genocide? The emergence of the 'Final Solution' in the 'warthegau', Ian Kershaw; The rescue of Jews in the Italian zone of occupied Croatia, Daniel Carpi; Victims, perpetrators and bystanders in a German town: the Jews of Osnabrück before, during and after the Third Reich, Panikos Panayi ; Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 'ordinary Germans': a heretic and his critics, Robert E. Herzstein; The isolation of Daniel Goldhagen: a response to Robert Herzstein, Jeffrey Vanke. Name index.

Prezzo: £115.00
Pagine: 508
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 0754626466
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007

Volume VI
Causes and Background

JEREMY BLACK

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Series preface; Introduction; Concepts of causation in A.J.P. Taylor's Account of the Origins of the Second World War, W.H. Dray; The origins of World War II in Europe: British deterrence failure and German expansionism, Jeffrey L. Hughes; A 30 Years' War? The 2 World Wars in historical perspective, Michael Howard; Saving the league: V.K. Wellington Koo, the League of Nations, and Sino-Japanese conflict 1931–39, Stephen G. Craft; The French Navy and the appeasement of Italy, 1937–9, Reynolds M. Salerno ; The defence requirements sub-committee, British strategic foreign policy, Neville Chamberlain and the path to appeasement, Keith Neilson; England's place in Hitler's plans for world dominion, Andreas Hillgruber; The alliance that failed: Moscow and the Triple Alliance negotiations,1939, Geoffrey Roberts; Hitler's visit to Rome and the May Weekend crisis: a study in Hitler's response to external stimuli, Donald C. Watt; Blood and iron and 'der geist des Atlantiks': assessing Hitler's decision to invade Norway, Adam Claasen; The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: synthesis impossible? Michael A. Barnhart; Influence of the United States Navy in the embargo of oil to Japan, 1940–1941, James H. Herzog; A careless hope: American air power and Japan, 1941, Daniel F. Harrington; Anglo-Australian relations and the origins of the Pacific war, Kosmas Tsokhas; The Spanish Civil War: lessons learned and not learned by the Great Powers, James S. Corum; The clash of Spanish armies: contrasting ways of war in Spain, 1936–9, Michael Alpert; The 'European Aldershot' for the Second World War? The battle of the Ebro, 1938, Matthew Hughes; Machine dreams: airmindedness and the reinvention of Germany, Peter Fritzsche; Trenchard and 'morale bombing': the evolution of Royal Air Force doctrine before World War II, Phillip S. Meilinger; From khaki and light blue to purple: the long and troubled development of army/air co-operation in Britain, 1914–1945, David Ian Hall; Mikhail Tukhachevsky and war-economic planning: reconsiderations on the pre-war Soviet military build-up, Lennart Samuelson; Name index.

Prezzo: £115.00
Pagine: 520
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 0754626520
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007

Volume VII
Alliance Politics and Grand Strategy

JEREMY BLACK

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Series preface; Introduction; German military incompetence through Italian eyes, James J. Sadkovich; The background to the Syrian campaign, May-June 1941: a study in Franco-German wartime relations, Jafna L. Cox ; Churchill and the American alliance, John Charmley; Australia, the British Empire and the Second World War, Christopher Waters; The politics of strategy: Great Britain, Australia and the war against Japan,1939–1945, John Gooch; The 'Singapore strategy' and the deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the dispatch of Force Z, Christopher M. Bell; War, foreign policy and public opinion: Britain and the Darlan affair, November–December 1942, P.M.H. Bell; Great Britain: the indirect strategy, Alex Danchev; The Alanbrooke diaries, Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman; Censorship, propaganda and public opinion: the case of the Katyn graves, 1943, P.M.H. Bell; The British TUC between Germany and Russia: from the outbreak of war to the World Trade Union conference of February 1945, Isabelle Tombs; Ernest King and the British Pacific fleet: the conference at Quebec, 1944, Michael Coles; 'All for each and each for all': reflections on Anglo-American and Commonwealth scientific cooperation, 1940–1945, Roy MacLeod; Anglo-American policy on German reparations from Yalta to Potsdam, J.E. Farquharson; The campaign to sell a harsh peace for Germany to the American public,1944–1948, Steven Casey; The Moscow declaration, the Kharkov trial and the question of a policy on major war criminals of the Second World War, Arieh J. Kochavi; 'The trial that never was': why there was no second international trial of major war criminals at Nuremberg, Donald Bloxham; Problems of neutrality: Swiss diplomatic documents, 1939–45, Neville Wylie; The Vatican and the war in the Far East, 1941–43, David J. Alvarez. Name index

Prezzo: £110.00
Pagine: 464
Formato: rilegato
ISBN: 07546264 0
Data di pubblicazione: 05/2007