This volume is the third book in the comprehensive series "Germany and the Second World War". It explores the conduct of the war in the Mediterranean region and examines the dramatic military events of this period.
This is the third volume in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. It explores the conduct of the war in the Mediterranean region and examines the dramatic military events of this period. The authors show how German policy in this area was largely determined by the attitude of the German leadership, especially Hitler, towards Mussolini's Italy, and they shed important new light on the alliance policy of the Third Reich. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of 4nparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
By bringing out an English translation, OUP have put all scholars of the war in their debt. If any volume can lay claim to being definitive, this is surely it. The authors have read almost unbelievably widely in the primary and secondary sources ... it will endure ... an indispensable guide to the latest research on most key aspects of the war ... the range and intellectual energy ... will make it an invaluable work of reference for undergraduate and researchers ... as valuable a commemoration of the war as any.
