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100 1 $aMosier, John,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00042070
245 14 $aThe blitzkrieg myth :$bhow Hitler and the Allies misread the strategic realities of World War II /$cJohn Mosier.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axii, 338 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: New Theories of Warfare -- $g1.$tWar as Pseudoscience: 1920-1939 -- $g2.$tThe Maginot Line and Hitler's Response -- $g3.$tThe Tank Production Myths -- $g4.$tLessons Mislearned: Poland and the Winter Wars -- $g5.$tThe Germans and the Allies Prepare of War -- $g6.$tThe German Assault and the Fall of France: May-June 1940 -- $g7.$tThe Uses and Misuses of Armor: North Africa, Italy, the Eastern Front -- $g8.$tThe Failure of Strategic Airpower: 1940-1944 -- $g9.$tNormandy and the Breakout at Saint-Lo: Summer 1944 -- $g10.$tThe Breakthrough Failures: Arnhem, Metz, Bastogne -- $g11.$tConclusion: The Persistence of Failed Ideas.
520 1 $a"The great myth of the First World War was that defense was all-powerful. In the interwar years, a new myth appeared - that the new technology of the airplane and the tank would result in rapid and massive breakthroughs on the battlefield, with the enemy being destroyed in weeks." "John Mosier shows how Hitler, Rommel, von Manstein, Montgomery, and Patton were all equally seduced by the breakthrough myth, or blitzkrieg, as the decisive way to victory. He shows how the Polish campaign in the autumn of 1939 and the fall of France in the spring of 1940 were not blitzkrieg victories. He also reinterprets Rommel's North African campaigns, D day, the Normandy campaign, and Hitler's last desperate breakthrough effort to Antwerp in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, among others. All these actions saw the clash of breakthrough theories with the realities of conventional military tactics."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aLightning war.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076937
650 0 $aMilitary art and science$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107788
650 0 $aTactics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131869
650 0 $aTank warfare$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148275
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zWestern Front.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148349
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xTank warfare.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148504
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