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| Preface | |
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| Hitler's War | |
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| The Legacy of World War I | |
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| The Rise of the Nazis | |
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| The New German Republic | |
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| Adolf Hitler: The Early Years | |
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| Hitler's Worldview | |
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| The Nazis in Power | |
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| The Breakdown of Peace | |
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| Hitler's Foreign Policy Aims | |
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| Tearing Up the Versailles Treaty | |
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| German and Italian Aggressions, 1935-1939 | |
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| Czechoslovakia: The Apex of Appeasement | |
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| Poland: The Final Crisis | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| The German Blitzkrieg, 1939-1940 | |
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| The Invasion of Poland | |
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| Mechanized Warfare: A New Military Tactic | |
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| The Defeat of Poland | |
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| The Conquest of Denmark and Norway | |
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| The Low Countries and France | |
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| Prewar French Strategy | |
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| The German Offensive | |
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| The German Conquest of Western Europe, 1940 | |
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| Through the Ardennes | |
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| The French in a Rout | |
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| The "Miracle of Dunkirk" | |
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| The Fall of France | |
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| Reasons for France's Defeat | |
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| The Battle of Britain | |
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| Fighter Command and Britain's Air Defense | |
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| Nazi Germany's First Defeat | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Operation Barbarossa | |
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| The Balkans First | |
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| The Opening Phase | |
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| A War of Annihilation | |
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| German Successes | |
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| Operation Barbarossa and the Eastern Front, 1941 | |
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| Soviet Resilience and German Miscalculations | |
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| Russian Tenacity and Courage | |
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| Unforeseen Challenges | |
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| Stalin's Continued Terror | |
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| The Wehrmacht Thwarted: Moscow and Leningrad | |
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| At the Gates of Moscow | |
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| A Soviet Counterattack | |
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| The Epic Siege of Leningrad | |
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| The Tide Turns: Stalingrad | |
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| More German Conquests | |
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| Operation Blue | |
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| Urban Warfare | |
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| The Death of the Sixth Army | |
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| Kursk: Germany's Last Offensive on Soviet Soil | |
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| Soviet Preparations | |
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| A Stalled German Offensive | |
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| No Prospect of a German Victory | |
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| Hitler and His Generals | |
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| The Momentum Changes | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Racial Empire: Exploitation, Enslavement, Extermination | |
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| Exploitation and Terror | |
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| Forced Labor | |
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| Occupied Poland | |
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| Occupied Soviet Union | |
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| The Holocaust: The Extermination of European Jewry | |
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| The SS Mentality | |
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| Mobile Death Squads | |
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| Extermination Camps | |
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| Main Deportation Centers | |
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| The Uniqueness of the Holocaust | |
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| The German People and the Holocaust | |
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| Germany | |
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| Austria | |
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| Europe, America, and the Holocaust | |
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| Complicity | |
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| Righteous Gentiles | |
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| Bombing of Auschwitz Controversy | |
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| The Vatican's Policy of Silence | |
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| Collaboration with the Nazis in Occupied Europe | |
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| Resistance Movements | |
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| Notes | |
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| War on Other Fronts | |
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| Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943 | |
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| The U-Boats' "Happy Time" | |
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| Coping with the Threat | |
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| The North African Campaign | |
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| Rommel and the Afrika Korps | |
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| Containing the Desert Fox | |
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| American Entry | |
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| Driving the Axis from North Africa | |
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| The Italian Campaign | |
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| Invasion of Sicily | |
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| Rome under Nazi Occupation | |
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| Invasion of the Mainland: Salerno | |
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| Anzio: Bloody Stalemate | |
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| Cassino: Costly Breakout | |
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| The Italian Campaign: A Wasteful Diversion? | |
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| The Air War: 1941 to D-Day | |
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| Precision and Area Bombing | |
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| Was It Worth It? | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| Sustaining Morale and Coping with Hardship | |
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| The "Blitz" | |
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| The War and Women | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Invasion: From the Atlantic Wall to the Siegfried Line | |
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| The Landing at Normandy | |
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| Preparation | |
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| D-Day | |
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| Rommel and the Atlantic Wall | |
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| Omaha Beach: A Near Disaster | |
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| Allied Success | |
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| Struggling to Break Out | |
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| Cherbourg and Bocage Country | |
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| Caen | |
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| Tlie Falaise Pocket | |
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| Liberation | |
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| Temporary Stalemate on the Western Front | |
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| German Recovery | |
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| German Military Resurgence: Market Garden, Aachen, Huertgen Forest, Metz | |
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| Advance to the German Border, July 24-December 15, 1944 | |
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| Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble | |
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| Hitler's Goals and Strategy | |
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| Initial Success | |
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| American Resistance and German Defeat | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| The End of the Third Reich | |
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| German Morale: Ambivalent, Fanatic, Fatalist | |
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| Red Army on the Offensive | |
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| Operation Bagration | |
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| World War II: The European Theatre | |
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| Beyond the Soviet Union's Borders | |
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| The Drive into Germany from the West | |
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| The Rhineland | |
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| Montgomery's Crossing of the Rhine | |
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| Saturation Bombing | |
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| The Ruhr and Beyond | |
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| Victory in Italy | |
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| Unconditional Surrender: Prolonging the War? | |
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| Liberating Concentration Camps | |
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| The Drive into Germany from the East | |
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| The Vistula Offensive: Poland and the Reich | |
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| Soviet Retribution and German Flight | |
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| To the Bitter End | |
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| Soviet Advance and Goebbels' Desperate Appeals | |
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| Nazi Terror | |
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| The Bunker: A Delusional Hitler | |
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| The Storming of Berlin: The Last Battle | |
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| The End of Hitler and His Third Reich | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Aftermath, Legacy, and Meaning of the War | |
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| Death Toll | |
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| Material Damage | |
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| Population Transfers and Ethnic Cleansing | |
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| Retribution for Collaborators | |
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| War Crimes Trials | |
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| Jewish Survivors | |
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| The New (West) Germany: Overcoming the Past | |
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| The Reality of Total Defeat | |
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| Konrad Adenauer: Architect of the New West Germany | |
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| Facing Responsibility | |
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| Enduring Myths: A Defensive War and the Wehrmacht's Clean Hands | |
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| The German Clergy in the Confession Booth | |
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| Emergence of the Cold War | |
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| European Unity | |
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| The Demise of European Imperialism | |
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| The War and Western Consciousness | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibiliography | |
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| Index | |