World War II: A Military History - Couverture rigide

Warren, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0752445979 ISBN 13 : 9780752445977

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In the First World War many battles of the Western Front lasted for weeks or several months, all too often degenerating into glacial and indecisive campaigns of national attrition. By the 1930s, however, military science had recreated the possibility of a decisive battle. An unprecedented rate of technological change meant that a stream of new inventions were readily at hand for military innovators to exploit. Aircraft, armored vehicles, and new forms of motorized transport became available to make possible a fresh style of offensive warfare when the next European war began in 1939. A belief in the importance of effective war fighting was vital to the Nazi vision of Germany's future. Nazi Germany's political and military leaders aimed for rapid and decisive victory in battle. From 1939-45 new ideologies and new machines of war carried destruction across the globe. Alan Warren chronicles the 16 most decisive battles of the Second World War from the Blitzkrieg in Poland to the fall of Berlin.

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À propos de l'auteur

ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed Singapore 1942: Britain's Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752445979
• ISBN 13: 9780752445977
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible