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(0)Max Hastings
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but Churchill's instincts were correct. There is a poignant ambiguity...
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of World War II, traces the major developments from Hitler's refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union to Stalin's ruthlessness in his fight to wear down the German army, and shows the impact of war on the people.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battles that sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war, from the German invasion of Belgium to the Marne to Ypres, were utterly...
