How to Lose WWII
Bad Mistakes of the Good War
1st Edition
Published on 10. August 2010
304 pages
978-0-06-200017-0 (ISBN)
Description
How to Lose WWII is an engrossing, fact-filled collection from Bill Fawcett that sheds light on the biggest, and dumbest, screw-ups of the Great War. In the vein of his other phenomenal compendiums of amazing battlefield blunders, How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War, Fawcett focuses on some amazing catastrophic missteps of Axis and Allies alike.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- How the Western Powers Paved Hitler's Road to War
- Between a Hard Place and Another Even Harder Place
- The Silent Catastrophe of the Sitzkrieg
- Blitzkrieg in the North
- Invading Norway
- The Blitzkrieg Comes of Age
- One That Got Away
- Sure, Have the Uncommitted Run German Military Intelligence
- We've Almost Won, So Let's Change the Plan!
- Sacrificing Africa and Greece
- Good Ideas Turn into Dead Ends
- The Battle of Crete
- Germany Won't Attack Us!
- Battle of Moscow
- The Not-So-Master Race Declares War
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Marshal Georgi Zhukov Loses a Battle and the Soviets Cover It Up
- Battle of Kasserine Pass
- The Battle of Kursk
- Raids on Ploesti and Schweinfurt
- Battle of Ortona
- Nothing Goes Right in Italy
- Crossing the Rapido River
- Operations at Anzio
- The Bomber Will Screw Up . Most of the Time
- The Battle of the D-day Beaches
- Battle of Normandy
- The Gap at Falaise
- The Battle of Arnhem
- Battle of Huertgen Forest
- Caught Napping, or Hitler's Greatest Gamble
- The Wehrmacht's Last Gasp
- The Hand of God Protects the Führer
- Who Is Waiting in the FBI Headquarters' Lobby?
- Aryan Competition Breeds Nazi Contempt
- United States Intelligence Failures
- Luftwaffe Pilot Training
- Tanks for the Memories
- The Story of the Messerschmitt 262
- About the Editor
- Also by Bill Fawcett
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
