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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014-07-10. Paperback. New.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014-07-10. Paperback. Like New.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. xiv/408 pages.
"Conventional wisdom explains German defeat during World War II as almost inevitable, primarily for reasons of Allied economic or military brute force created when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 and entered into a two-front war.

"Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe" challenges this conventional wisdom, highlighting how the re-establishment of the traditional German art of war—updated to accommodate new weapons systems—paved the way for Germany to forge a considerable military edge over its much larger rivals by playing to its qualitative strengths as a continental power. Ironically, these methodologies also created and exacerbated internal contradictions that undermined the very war machine they enabled and left it vulnerable to enemies with the capacity to adapt and build on potent military traditions of their own.

The book begins by examining the methods by which the… Read More

London: Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Royal 8vo. pp.xiv + 407,ii. index. Illustrations in black & white. Original quality softcover with a crease to the front cover.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Oxford: Casemate, 2013. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xviii + 408pp., text ills., maps & plans, bibliog., index, Another piece of wishful thinking; that with adjustments to their armed forces, Nazi Germany could have resisted the Soviet juggernaut

Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2012. 1st . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 408pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/gilt; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ brwn.&blk.w/tan-photocover; fine. Examines how close Germany came to winning WWII. maps&tables.

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Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2014. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 408 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New. This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did-and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winning the war than is often perceived.