A War To Be Won: fighting the Second World WarHarvard University Press, 2009年6月30日 - 736 頁 In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. "A War To Be Won" is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications. "A War To Be Won" is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II--from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945--for students, scholars, and general readers alike. |
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3 German Designs 19391940 | 44 |
4 Germany Triumphant 1940 | 63 |
5 Diversions in the Mediterranean and Balkans 19401941 | 91 |
6 Barbarossa 1941 | 110 |
7 The Origins of the AsiaPacific War 19191941 | 143 |
8 The Japanese War of Conquest 19411942 | 169 |
14 The Killing Time 19431944 | 374 |
15 The Invasion of France 1944 | 411 |
16 The End in Europe 19441945 | 446 |
17 The Destruction of the Japanese Empire 19441945 | 484 |
19 Peoples at War 19371945 | 527 |
In Retrospect | 575 |
Notes | 613 |
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9 The AsiaPacific War 19421944 | 196 |
10 The Battle of the Atlantic 19391943 | 234 |
11 Year of Decision for Germany 1942 | 262 |
12 The Combined Bomber Offensive 19411945 | 304 |
13 The Destruction of Japanese Naval Power 19431944 | 336 |
Acknowledgments | 638 |
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