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Originally published in 1945, this book is a study of World War II through the phase which marked the developing power of the Allies to the threshold of their great offensive which brought the enemy to final defeat. It opens with the failure of the Germans to forestall, or check, the tremendous Russian recoil and follows this offensive across the Ukraine into pre-war Poland and Rumania. It also marches with Montgomery and Clark into the 'Festung Europa'...
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This book is a sequel to The War for World Power (1940) and proceeds on the same method. It is an attempt to select, now, what will prove to be the significant features of the war and, dealing with them episodically, to group about them the events, which are logically connected with them. It carries the story of the war from the tragedy and glory of Dunkirk across the Libyan desert to Benghazi, where the latent promise of Dunkirk justified itself....
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Originally published in 1940, "[T]his book is an attempt to provide a survey of the war that will commend itself to the majority of intelligent readers as giving the significant events of that great struggle. I have not attempted to give a detailed story even where, for certain reasons, it would have been possible to do so. Long detailed accounts are certain to appear sooner or later and find their level; but no such record could appear at present,...
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Originally published in 1947, this volume is the last of the series in which I have attempted to write the history of the war while it is actually taking place. It does not appear during the war for the best of reasons; but it is unduly late because of a number of personal mischances and because it covers much more ground than the earlier volumes. The battle-piece it attempts to portray is, in fact, the greatest in the history of the world. Never...
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Originally published in 1941, this book represents the third volume in a series on the course of World War II, by a well-informed author who chose to remain anonymous during the time of first publication. The period covered in this volume is roughly from February to August 1941. It is the sequel to The War for World Power and From Dunkirk to Benghazi and, according the author's Preface, "has been written upon the same broad lines as an attempt to...
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Veteran journalist and military commentator 'Strategicus' continues his contemporaneous history of the Second World War in 'The War Moves East'. Starting with the German offensive against Kiev and Leningrad the book follows the most successful period of the Wehrmacht in the East up to their final repulse before Moscow. In the deserts of Africa Rommel drives his Afrika Korps forward and in the Far East the Japanese run amok against American, Chinese...
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Originally published in 1944, "[t]he events with which this volume deals form an episode with a certain organic unity and completeness. They include the almost indescribable battle of Stalingrad and the Russian recoil; but they also take in the events in North Africa. They describe, therefore, the ebb and flow of the tide which threatened the liberties of Western civilization; and for the first time they suggest that unity of design which victory...
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