Political and Military Leadership in the World Wars : The Closest Concert
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Diplomatic Failure and Military Catastrophe -- The July Crisis -- The Battle of the Marne -- From Tannenberg to Gorlice-Tarnów -- From Verdu...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser.
v.78 |
| Schlagworte: | World politics Military history, Modern Naval history, Modern World politics-1919-1932 World politics-1933-1945 Europe-Foreign relations-1918-1945 Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Diplomatic Failure and Military Catastrophe -- The July Crisis -- The Battle of the Marne -- From Tannenberg to Gorlice-Tarnów -- From Verdun to the Somme -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Naval Theory in London and Berlin -- The Dardanelles Gambit -- The Career of the High Seas Fleet -- Revolution and Endgame -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Armistice -- Revising Peace and Pondering War -- Limitations and Innovations -- The Spirits of Locarno -- The Reshuffle of Naval Power -- The March of the Kwantung Army -- The Eclipse of Locarno Europe -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Appeasement and Rearmament -- The Pivotal Events of 1931 -- Appeasement -- Rearmament -- Toward a Pacific War -- The Murder of Soviet Military Thought -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Launch of World War II in Europe -- The Erasure of Poland -- The Fall of France -- The Battle of Britain -- The Dilution of German Strength -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Asia-Pacific War -- The Ambit of Conquest -- To Midway -- The Improvised Counteroffensive -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Defence and Offence, Land and Sea -- The German Naval Offensive, Raeder to Dönitz -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Torch -- From Casablanca to Rome -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Allied Offensives -- Uranus to Kursk -- The Anglo-American Strategic Bomber Offensive -- Overlord -- Naval and Amphibious Operations -- The Convergence of the Pacific Offensives -- Japan's Military and Moral Collapse -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Reinventing Modern War -- Reviving Alliance Warfare -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000364385 1000364380 9780367721015 0367721015 |