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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War - The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 by Meighen McCrae
Category: WWI & WWII | Series: Cambridge Military Histories Ser.
When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory over the Central Powers. Meighen McCrae illuminate ...Show more
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East by David Stahel
Category: Military | Series: Cambridge Military Histories Ser.
Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well- ...Show more
Violence in Defeat - The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 by Bastiaan Willems
Category: Military | Series: Cambridge Military Histories Ser.
In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East P ...Show more
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