Germany and the Second World War Volume VI: The Global War

by Boog, Horst; Rahn, Werner; Stumpf, Reinhard; Wegner, Bernd; Cook-Radmore, Derry

• ISBN13: 9780198738305
• ISBN10: 0198738307
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Horst Boog, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam,Werner Rahn, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam,Reinhard Stumpf, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam,Bernd Wegner, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam

Project co-ordinated by the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Translated from the German by Derry Cook-Radmore, John Brownjohn, Patricia Crampton, and Louise Willmot

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: POLICY AND STRATEGY 1941-1943: FROM CONTINENTALATLANTIC TO GLOBAL WAR
1. The anti-Hitler coalition
2. The coalition of the Tripartite Pact states
PART II: THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
1. Potential sources of conflict
2. Japan's road to war
3. Pearl Harbor and the expansion of the Japanese sphere of control
4. The Pacific naval air battles in 1942 and their repercussions
5. Guadalcanal: The inception of the American counter-offensive in 1942
Part III: The War in the Pacific 1943-1945
1. The Atlantic in German and Allied strategy
2. Allied sea transport capacity as a strategic problem of the German war effort
3. The conduct of the war in the Atlantic and the coastal area
4. Operations on the northern flank of Europe
PART IV: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN STRATEGIC AIR WAR OVER EUROPE, AND GERMAN AIR DEFENCE
1. Doctrine and preparation of the strategic bombing war in Great Britain and the United States of America up to the beginning of the war
2. Air defence in the German air war doctrine and the build-up of the German air defences in peacetime
3. The beginnings of the strategic bombing war by the RAF, the German air defence, and American preparations for air war up to the end of 1941
4. Allied strategic bombing and German air defence in 1942
5. The situation of the Luftwaffe from 1942 to the beginning of 1943
PART V: THE WAR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA 1942-1943: OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
1. The opening of the second German-Italian offensive in North Africa, and the Battle of Malta
2. The advance to El-Alamein (Operation Theseus)
3. El Alamein
4. The allied landing in North-West Africa and the German-Italian Panzer Armies' retreat to Tunisia
5. The German occupation of Vichy France and the seizure of Toulon (Operations Anton and Lila, 11-27 November 1942)
6. The war at sea and the supply situation, 1942-1943
PART VI: THE WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, 1942-1943
1. Hitler's 'Second Campaign': military concept and strategic foundations
2. The mobilization of Germany's allies
3. The Spring battles of 1942
4. The beginning of the summer offensive
5. The offensive into the Caucasus
6. Stalingrad
7. The annihilation of the Sixth Army
8. The winter battles of 1943
9. The historical topos of the second campaign against the Soviet Union
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Persons