Warfare and the Third Reich by Christopher Chant

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In Impressive detail, Warfare and the Third Reich traces the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler's "invincible" armed forces. The crucial and destructive role that Hitler himself played in Germany's military and political downfall resonates throughout the book.

PART 1 examines the efforts of a defeated Germany to regain its World War I stature and gives in-depth consideration to the prevailing conditions that aided it in its resurrection: Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s, Germany's shift to a war economy, propaganda and the home front, and the scientific research behind German innovations in weaponry and rockets.

PART 2 explores the complex relationship between the Nazi party and the German military high command, and gives accounts of Germany's startling early victories throughout Europe and in Africa, the long war of attrition in Russia, and the rapid collapse of German military hopes after D-Day.

Germany's air force, the notorious Luftwaffe, is the focus of PART 3. Recounted here are the Luftwaffe's role in the blitzkrieg and the Battle of Britain, as well as the air war in the Mediterranean and in the Soviet Union. Luftwaffe successes and significant defeats--and the fates of those responsible for them--are also extensively covered.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0760716986
  
• ISBN-13: 9780760716984
• Format: Hardcover, 451pp
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Pub. Date: April 2000
• Edition Description: Only From B&N Books
• Sales Rank: 126,271