Ian Hogg: Decisive Battles - The Turning Points of World War II
Man sagt, dass Kriegsgeschichte immer vom Sieger geschrieben wird, dass ist wohl einer der Preise die vom Verlierer gezahlt werden. Die Schlachten in diesem Buch wurden nicht festgehalten, um den Bezwinger zu verherrlichen, oder um die taktische Brillanz eines Kommandanten zu beweisen, sondern um zu zeigen das Kämpfe auch gewonnen werden können wenn man am Rande einer Niederlage steht.
Its has been said that the history of war is always written by the victor, and to a certain extent it must be true. It is part of the price paid by the loser. The battles in this volume were not, however, selected through any desire to glorify the vanquisher, or to prove the tactical brilliance of one commander over another, but to show that setpiece battles can be won, even on the brink of defeat, by some intuitive strategem that catches the enemy offguard. Determination and flair, too, have played their oart, as won shown by the Germans in Crete in 1941.
Content:
1939-1940 Battle of the River Plate/ Arras/ The Fall of France/ Battle of Britain
1941 Convoy HX112/ The Fall of Crete/ The Battle for Smolensk/ Pearl Harbor
1942 St. Nazaire/ Battle for the Aleutians/ First Alamein/ Battle of Santa Cruz/ The Oran Landings
1943 Kursk/ Death of the Scharnhorst
1944 Admin Box/ D-Day: Omaha/ Operation Goodwood
1945 Bodenplatte/ Iwo Jima/ The Rhine Crossings/ Battle of the Ruhr/ Fall of Berlin
Autor: Ian Hogg, Hardcover, 136 Seiten, Format 25,5 x 20 cm, s/w bebildert, englische Sprache
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