
World War II
A Military History
Alan Warren(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Published on 6. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-7524-5184-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the First World War many battles on the Western Front had lasted weeks or months. All too often they degenerated into glacial and indecisive campaigns of 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, armoured vehicles and new forms of motorised 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 sixteen most decisive battles of the Second World War, from the Blitzkrieg of Poland to the fall of Berlin.
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 sixteen most decisive battles of the Second World War, from the Blitzkrieg of Poland to the fall of Berlin.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-5184-8 (9780752451848)
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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.