Klaus H. Schmider

Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation

Why Germany Declared War on the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this revisionist account, Klaus H. Schmider examines German strategy, foreign policy and war production to uncover the chain of events which would incite Hitler to declare war on the United States - a move which may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but which would doom the Third Reich.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 610
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1100g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834919
• ISBN-10: 1108834914
• Artikelnr.: 59644126

Autorenporträt

Klaus H. Schmider has been with the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since May 1999. He is the co-author of Volume 8 of the official German history of World War II, Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and German Terms
Introduction
1. Hitler's Pre-war Assessment of the United States and Japan
2. Hitler's Physical Health in Autumn 1941
3. 'All measures short of war': the German Assessment of American Strategy, 1940/41
4. Forging an Unlikely Alliance: Germany and Japan, 1933-1941
5. Facing the Same Dilemma: The US and German Quest for Rubber
6. The Crisis of the German War Economy, 1940/41
7. The End of Blitzkrieg? Barbarossa and the Impact of Lend-Lease
8. The Battle of the Atlantic
9. The Luftwaffe on the Eve of Global War
10. The Holocaust
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.