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A War To Be Won
About This Book
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 how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications. A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War IIāfrom the SinoāJapanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945āfor students, scholars, and general readers alike.
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- CONTENTS
- 1 Origins of a Catastrophe
- 2 The Revolution in Military Operations, 1919ā1939
- 3 German Designs, 1939ā1940
- 4 Germany Triumphant, 1940
- 5 Diversions in the Mediterranean and Balkans, 1940ā1941
- 6 Barbarossa, 1941
- 7 The Origins of the Asia-Pacific War, 1919ā1941
- 8 The Japanese War of Conquest, 1941ā1942
- 9 The Asia-Pacific War, 1942ā1944
- 10 The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939ā1943
- 11 Year of Decision for Germany, 1942
- 12 The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1941ā1945
- 13 The Destruction of Japanese Naval Power, 1943ā1944
- 14 The Killing Time, 1943ā1944
- 15 The Invasion of France, 1944
- 16 The End in Europe, 1944ā1945
- 17 The Destruction of the Japanese Empire, 1944ā1945
- 18 The End of the Asia-Pacific War, 1945
- 19 Peoples at War, 1937ā1945
- 20 The Aftermath of War
- Epilogue: In Retrospect
- Appendix 1: Military Organization
- Appendix 2: The Conduct of War
- Appendix 3: Weapons
- Appendix 4: Exploring World War II
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index