War to Be Won Fighting the Second World War

Name: War to Be Won Fighting the Second World War
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ISBN: 9780674006805

ISBN-10: 0674006801

ISBN-13: 9780674006805

Edition: 2000

Authors: Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C.




Origins of a Catastrophe



The Revolution in Military Operations, 1919?1939



German Designs, 1939?1940



Germany Triumphant, 1940



Diversions in the Mediterranean and Balkans, 1940?1941



Barbarossa, 1941



The Origins of the Asia-Pacific War, 1919?1941



The Japanese War of Conquest, 1941?1942



The Asia-Pacific War, 1942?1944



The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939?1943



Year of Decision for Germany, 1942



The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1941?1945



The Destruction of Japanese Naval Power, 1943?1944



The Killing Time, 1943?1944



The Invasion of France, 1944



The End in Europe, 1944?1945



The Destruction of the Japanese Empire, 1944?1945



The End of the Asia-Pacific War, 1945



Peoples at War, 1937?1945



The Aftermath of War


Epilogue: In Retrospect


Appendixes



Military Organization



The Conduct of War



Weapons



Exploring World War II Notes


Suggested Reading


Acknowledgments


Illustration


Credits Index