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The Blitzkrieg Myth How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II 1st Edition by John Mosier 9780060009762 0060009764

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Author(s): John Mosier
ISBN(s): 9780060009762, 0060009764
Edition: First Edition
File Details: PDF, 122.22 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0060009764

ISBN 13: 9780060009762

Author: John Mosier

The great myth of the First World War was that defense was all-powerful. In the inter war years, a new myth appeared — that the new technology of the airplane and the tank would result in rapid and massive breakthroughs on the battlefield, with the enemy being destroyed in weeks.

John Mosier shows how Hitler, Rommel, von Manstein, Montgomery, and Patton were all equally seduced by the breakthrough myth, or blitzkrieg, as the decisive way to victory. He shows how the Polish campaign in the autumn of 1939 and the fall of France in the spring of 1940 were not blitzkrieg victories. He also reinterprets Rommel’s North African campaigns, D day, the Normandy campaign, and Hitler’s last desperate breakthrough effort to Antwerp in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, among others. All these actions saw the clash of breakthrough theories with the realities of conventional military tactics. The Blitzkrieg Myth is a compelling and original rethinking of the strategy and tactics of World War II by the author of the highly praised The Myth of the Great War.

Table of contents:

  1. War as Pseudoscience: 1920-1939

  2. The Maginot Line and Hitler’s Response

  3. The Tank Production Myths

  4. Lessons Mislearned: Poland and the Winter Wars

  5. The Germans and the Allies Prepare for War

  6. The German Assault and the Fall of France: May-June 1940

  7. The Uses and Misuses of Armor: North Africa, Italy, the Eastern Front

  8. The Failure of Strategic Airpower: 1940-1944

  9. Normandy and the Breakout at Saint-Lô: Summer 1944

  10. The Breakthrough Failures: Arnhem, Metz, Bastogne

  11. Conclusion: The Persistence of Failed Ideas

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