Hitler's War - Germany's Key Strategic Decisons 1940-1945

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. First Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4. McKeveny, Tom - Cover Design. 352 Pages Indexed. Book and Jacket are in Brand New Condition. Blue boards with black cloth quarter-spine with gold lettering. This is the 2003 Barnes and Noble reprint, a substantially revised and extended edition, based on new source material and detailed research on the history of the German-Soviet war in 1941. In 1940, the British, fearful of an invasion of their island, had little attention to spare for other problems of their war with Germany. What if Adolf Hitler had taken advantage of this situation by seizing key areas of the Mediterranean? What if the Germans, in their 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, had given themselves enough time to reach the gates of Moscow before the autumn rains began? And what if Hitler, instead of dismissing the Russians as subhuman, had exploited their discontent with the rule of Josef Stalin? The author raises these and many similar questions in Hitler's War, the first study of Germany's conduct of World War II to take full account of alternatives rejected and opportunities lost. He brilliantly identifies the failures of German policy and strategy that led to irretrievable battlefield reverses and the downfall of the regime. He explains why the wrong decisions were made, how they worsened Germany's position, and what might have happened had Hitler and his generals judged more astutely. Magenheimer's conclusion will come as a jolt to conventional wisdom: the Third Reich was not foredoomed to defeat by the superior resources of its enemies, and with better leadership might have achieved its goal of a Nazi Europe. Hitler's War grounds its radical conclusions in traditional scholarship, evidenced by its detailed maps, copious notes, and substantial bibliography.