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Campaigns, Germany, History, Military History, Western, Western Front, World War, 1939-1945, Military campaigns, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Kriegsende, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, western front, World war, 1939-1945, germany
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1933-1945, 20th century

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Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction v
List of Illustrations X
Author's Preface XII
BOOK ONE
THE ROAD TO DEFEAT
PART I
THE CAUSES
CHAPTER
I. Men Make Wars 1
II. Hitler 3
III. Discipline 8
IV. Ignorance 13
PART II
THE BEGINNINGS
V. The Wehrmacht is Reborn 21
VI. Hitler versus the German General Staff 25
VII. The Phoney War 33
VIII. Victory — and Defeat 39
PART III
THE MISTAKES
IX. The Early Mistakes — Gibraltar and Crete 54
X. The Greatest Mistake — Russia 60
XI. The Decisive Mistake — United States 74
XII. The Final Mistake — El Alamein 78
BOOK TWO
DEFEAT IN THE WEST
PART IV
THE INVASION
XIII. The Atlantic Wall and the Men Behind It 88
XIV. Watching and Waiting 95
XV. The First Days 100
XVI. The Battle of the Bridgehead 109
XVII. The German Soldier Still Hopes 116
PART V
THE DECLINE
XVIII. July Twentieth 122
XIX. Defeat in Normandy 136
XX. Mortain 145
XXI. The Hell of Falaise 148
XXII. Paris and the Seine 162
XXIII. The Retreat 177
XXIV. The Fortresses 187
XXV. Manning the Siegfried Line 202
PART VI
THE COUNTERBLOW
XXVI. Offensive in the Ardennes 222
XXVII. The Parachutists and the Saboteurs 235
XXVIII. Elation and Despair 248
XXIX. The Thunder of Collapse 253
PART VII
THE END
XXX. Defeat West of the Rhine 262
XXXI. Defeat East of the Rhine 277
XXXII. Resistance that Never Came 286
XXXIII. Defeat 294
XXXIV. The Vanquished 309
APPENDIX A
Senior German Officers interviewed by the Author 320
APPENDIX B
Bibliography 321
Notes 322
Index 330
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Plate I. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg with Colonel General Hans von Seeckt
At a ceremony in Berlin in March 1935 are Field Marshal von Mackensen, Hitler and Field Marshal von Blomberg, Colonel General von Fritsch, Goring and Admiral Raeder Inspecting a guard during manoeuvres in August 1938 are Colonel General Blaskowitz, Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch and Hitler
Plate II. Colonel General Franz Haider, Chief-of-Staff of the German Army, September 1938 to September 1942
Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Commander Army Group 'B' in France (1940)and Army Group South in Russia (1941-42) Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, February 1934 to February 1938 Hitler and his field marshals, August 1940: Field Marshal Keitel, Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Field Marshal von Bock, Reichsmarshal Goring, Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal von Leeb, Field Marshal List, Field Marshal von Kluge, Field Marshal von Witzleben and Field Marshal von Reichenau
A STUDY IN VICTORY AND DEFEAT
Plate III. Victorious Generals: Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Commander Army Group 'A' in France (1940), Army Group South in Russia (1941), Commander-in-Chief West (1942-45); Field Marshal von Leeb, Commander Army Group 'C' in France (1940), Army Group North in Russia (1941); Field Marshal List, Commander Army Group 'A' in the Caucasus (1942)
Defeated Generals: Field Marshals von Rundstedt, von Leeb and List as prisoners-of-war
Plate IV, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Commander 'Afrika Korps' (1941-43), Army Group 'B' in France (1944)
Colonel General Kurt Student, Commander Army Group 'H' (1944-45), Commander-in-Chief German Airborne Troops (1943-45)
Adolf Hitler congratulating Admiral Raeder, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Keitel and S.S. Reichsfiihrer Himmler at Berlin in April 1941
Plate V. S.S. Brigadefiihrer (Major General) Kurt Meyer, Commander 12 S.S. Panzer Division 'Hitler Jugend'
General Gunther Blumentritt, Chief-of-Staff to the Commander-in-Chief West (1942-44), Commander Twenty-fifth Army and First Parachute Army (1945)
Field Marshal Rommel in May 1944 inspecting 21 Panzer Division led by Lieutenant General Edgar Feuchtinger
Plate VI. S.S. Oberstgruppenfiihrer (Colonel General)Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich, Commander Fifth Panzer Army and SiXth S.S. Panzer Army
Colonel General Heinz Guderian, Commander-in-Chief East (1944), Chief-of-Staff of the German Army, July 1944 to May 1945 Field Marshal Walter Model, Commander Army Group North and Army Group Center in Russia (1944), Army Group 'B' in France (1944-45)
Colonel General Ludwig Beck, Chief-of-Staff of the German Army (1936-38), and military leader of the 20 July assassination plot against Hitler
Plate VII. Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, Army Group Center in Russia (1943), Commander-in-Chief West (July-August 1944) Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Commander-in-Chief South (1942-43), Commander-in-Chief South-west (1944-45), Commander-in-Chief West (March-May 1945)
Colonel General Alfred Jodi signing the surrender terms on behalf of the German Supreme Command at Rheims on 7 May 1945. At the eXtreme right is Admiral Hans von Friedeburg
Plate VIII. Wehrmacht (rear view), Nuremberg, September 1936 Wehrmacht (front view). The Elbe, May 1945
(These plates, which are all in one Section, will be found following page 144.)
MAPS
The Invasion That Never Came 45
(September 1940)
The Normandy Bridgehead 117
(29 June 1944)
The Falaise Pocket 159
(19 August 1944)
The Retreat from France 181
(17 September 1944)
The Ardennes Offensive 227
(24 December 1944)
The Allied Advance to the Rhine 273
(February-March 1945)
The Final Collapse 285
(April-May 1945)

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 321. Bibliographical references in "Notes" (p. 322-330)

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.542
Library of Congress
D743 .S5 1948

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xiv, 336 p.
Number of pages
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Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
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LCCN
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OCLC/WorldCat
555540
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