Hitler's Generals
by Humble, Richard
Published by : Doubleday & Co (Garden City, New York) Physical details: 167 p. ISBN:42507. Year: 1973| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | Book Cart | 940.541343 Hum (Browse shelf) | Available | Gift | 42507 |
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Includes Index
Part I. Foundation --
Part II. Victory. Poland: the blueprint Blitzkrieg ; After Poland: the generals kept at heel ; Sharpening the sickle ; Norway: the navy steals the limelight ; Holland and Belgium: the 'matador's cape' ; From the Meuse to Dunkirk ; The Battle of France ; The best anti-tank ditch in the world ; The birth of Barbarossa ; Help for the Duce ; To the gates of Moscow ; Winter ordeal: the purge of the generals ; African triumph ; Drive to Stalingrad --
Part III. Defeat. 'Long live the 6th army!' ; Manstein's masterpiece ; Alamein to 'Tunisgrad' ; Kesselring's southern front ; Russian steamroller: from Kursk to the Dniepr ; Rommel in Normandy ; The bomb plot and after ; Disaster in the west ; 'One tank on the Meuse' ; Watch on the Rhine ; 'Now take Berlin!'.
An account of Hitler's military campaigns as told through the precarious careers and changing fortunes of his Army commanders.