Phillips Payson O'Brien

How the War Was Won (eBook, ePUB)

Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy. He shows how the Allies developed a predominance of air and sea power which put unbearable pressure on Germany and Japan's entire war-fighting machine from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Air and sea power dramatically expanded the area of battle and allowed the Allies to destroy over half of the Axis' equipment before it had even reached the traditional 'battlefield'. Battles such as El Alamein, Stalingrad and Kursk did not win World War II; air and sea power did.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316234068
• Artikelnr.: 53001004

Autorenporträt

Phillips Payson O'Brien gained a Ph.D. in History after two years working on Wall Street. Since then, he has published a range of works on British and American strategic and political history during the first half of the twentieth century. More recently, he has taken a leading role as a commentator on defence issues and the debate over Scottish Independence. He has testified in front of UK parliamentary committees, and advised major European governments on the course of the campaign. Through this work he has gained media experience, appearing as a regular commentator for the BBC and STV, and publishing opinion pieces in the Scotsman and the Scottish Herald. He has received awards or research fellowships from the Carnegie Foundation, the US Naval History and Heritage Command, and the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt Presidential libraries. He has also been invited to Japan twice to speak on World War II at the National Institute of Defence Studies (Tokyo).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The dominance of air and sea production
2. The air and sea war and the phases of equipment destruction
3. The air and sea war to November 1940
4. Grand strategists and the air and sea war
5. Understanding the air and sea war from December 1940 to March 1942
6. Grand strategy in action, prioritizing the air and sea war
7. Winning the shipping war
8. The war in Europe in 1943: strategic bombing and the land war
9. The war in Europe in 1944
10. The air and sea war against Japan, 1942-4
11. The end of the war
Conclusion: the supremacy of air and sea power and the control of mobility
Bibliography
Index.