Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States - Couverture rigide

Schmider, Klaus H.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108834914 ISBN 13 : 9781108834919

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months, Klaus H. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German leader to declare war on the United States in December 1941. He provides new insights not just on the problems afflicting German strategy, foreign policy and war production but, crucially, how they were perceived at the time at the top levels of the Third Reich. Schmider sees the declaration of war on the United States not as an admission of defeat or a gesture of solidarity with Japan, but as an opportunistic gamble by the German leader. This move may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but would ultimately doom the Third Reich.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Klaus H. Schmider has been with the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since May 1999. He is the co-author of Volume 8 of the official German history of World War II, Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg (2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108834914
• ISBN 13: 9781108834919
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 610
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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