Synopses & Reviews
This is the third volume in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. It explores the conduct of the war in the Mediterranean region and examines the dramatic military events of this period. The authors show how German policy in this area was largely determined by the attitude of the German leadership, especially Hitler, towards Mussolini's Italy, and they shed important new light on the alliance policy of the Third Reich. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of 4nparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
Review
"Volume 3 in the series Germany and the Second World War" continues the tradition of scholarship, organization, thoroughness, and readability....The author's credentials are impeccable, their expertise never in doubt, and their conclusions balanced and built on seemingly exhaustive research of Axis and Allied sources."--History: Reviews of New Books"
"As in previous volumes, the scholarly apparatus does not intrude on the narrative and analysis. High quality maps and charts add greatly to the clarity of the presentation....Recommended for all libraries. All levels."--Choice
"The first three volumes provide the finest coverage available in English on the background, origins, and course, well into 1941, of World War II in Europe from the German perspective. They do so, moreover, in readable form, with copious references to the relevant international scholarly literature, which is listed in their extensive bibliographies."--World War Two Studies Association
Synopsis
This is the third in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The volumes so far published have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War.
Volume 3 explores the conduct of the war in the Mediterranean region and examines the dramatic military events of this period. It shows how German policy in this area was largely determined by the attitude of the German leadership, especially Hitler, towards Mussolini's Italy, and the volume thus sheds important new light on the alliance policy of theThird Reich. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables.
Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of unparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
v. 1. The build-up of German aggression / Wilhelm Deist ... et al. -- v. 2. Germany's initial conquests in Europe / Klaus A. Maier ... et al. -- v. 3. The Mediterranean, south-east Europe, and north Africa, 1939-1941 / Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel.