Military Effectiveness: Volume 3, The Second World War (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Millett, Allan R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and military power at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. They form the basis for a fundamental re-examination of how military organizations have performed in the first half of the twentieth century. Volume 3 covers World War II. Volumes 1 and 2 address address World War I and the interwar period, respectively. Now in a new edition, with a new introduction by the editors, these classic volumes will remain invaluable for military historians and social scientists in their examination of national security and military issues. They will also be essential reading for future military leaders at Staff and War Colleges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139118811
• Artikelnr.: 38279440

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: military effectiveness twenty years after Williamson Murray
and Allan R. Millett; 1. The effectiveness of the Japanese military
establishment in the Second World War Alvin D. Coox; 2. The United States
armed forces in the Second World War Allan R. Millett; 3. British military
effectiveness in the Second World War Williamson Murray; 4. The Italian
armed forces, 1940-3 MacGregor Knox; 5. The dynamics of volksgemeinschaft:
the effectiveness of the German military establishment in the Second World
War Jürgen E. Förster; 6. Bitter victory: French military effectiveness
during the Second World War Ronald Chalmers Hood III; 7. The Soviet armed
forces in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-5 John E. Jessup; 8. Military
effectiveness in the Second World War Earl F. Ziemke; 9. Challenge and
response at the operational and tactical levels, 1914-45 Lieutenant General
John H. Cushman; 10. The political and strategic dimensions of military
effectiveness Russell F. Weigley.