A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War

Murray, Williamson; Millett, Allan R.

ISBN 10: 0674006801 / ISBN 13: 9780674006805

Editore: Belknap Press, 2001

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0674006801I3N10

Riassunto:

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 Americas 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 IIfrom the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Product Description: Fighting the Second World War

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Titolo: A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World ...
Casa editrice: Belknap Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket
Edizione: terza edizione