Introduction
PART I: From Stalingrad to KurskBernd Wegner:
1: Basic Problems in German Conduct of the War after Stalingrad
2: German Alliance Policy and the Question of a Separate Peace
3: The Genesis of the Battle of Kursk
PART II: The Battle of the Kursk SalientKarl-Heinz Frieser:
1: The Hopeless German Starting Position
2: The Failure of Operation Citadel
3: Operation Citadel - A Turning Point?
4: The Soviet Counter-Offensives
PART III: The Perplexities of War: The Soviet Theatre in German
Policy and Strategy from the Summer of 1943Bernd Wegner:
1: The Soviet Theatre of War in German Policy and Strategy From the
Summer of 1943
2: From the Setbacks in the Summer of 1943 to a Permanent Crisis of
Leadership
3: The Abandonment of Foreign Policy and the Isolation of
Germany
4: Withdrawal from the East? 'Fortress Europe' and the Dilemma of
Interconnected War
PART IV: The Swing of the Pendulum: The Withdrawal of the Eastern
Front from Summer 1943 to Summer 1944
Karl-Heinz Frieser: Prologue: The 'Forgotten Year'
1: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Withdrawal of Army Group North from
Leningrad to the Baltic
2: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Withdrawal of Army Group Centre to
Belorussia up to the Spring of 1944
3: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Army Group South's Withdrawal Operations in
the Ukraine
4: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal of Army Group A through the
Crimea to Romania
PART V: Collapse in the East: The Withdrawal Battles from the
Summer of 1944
1: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Errors and Illusions: The German Command's
Miscalculations in the Early Summer of 1944
2: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Collapse of Army Group Centre in the
Summer of 1944
3: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Defensive Successes of Army Group Centre
in the Autumn of 1944
4: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Army Group North's Withdrawal Battles to
Courland
5: Klaus Schönherr: The Battles for Galicia and the Beskid
Mountains
6: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal Battles in Romania and
Transylvania in the Summer and Autumn of 1944
7: Krisztián Ungváry: The Hungarian Theatre of War
PART VI: The War on the Neighbouring Fronts
1: Bernd Wegner: The End of the War in Scandinavia
2: Klaus Schmider: The Yugoslavian Theatre of War (January 1943 to
May 1945)
3: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal from Greece
4: Gerhard Schreiber: The End of the North African Campaign and the
War in Italy 1943 to 1945
PART VII: Germany on the Brink of the PrecipiceBernd Wegner:
1: Waging war 'as if ...': Germany's Strategic Position from the
Spring of 1944 onwards
2: Orchestrating the End
Concluding Summary
Karl-Heinz Frieser (b. 1949), was a Colonel in the Bundeswehr. He
studied political science and mediaeval and modern history at
Würzburg. From 1985 to 2009, he was a research associate at the
MGFA, becoming head of research on the world war era. His
publications include Krieg hinter Stacheldraht: Die deutschen
Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion und das Nationalkomitee 'Freies
Deutschland' (1981); Blitzkrieg-Legende: Der Westfeldzug 1940
(3rd
ed., 2005); Ardennen - Sedan: Militärhistorischer Führer durch eine
europäische Schicksalslandschaft (2nd ed., 2006). His main area of
research is in the operational history of the Second World War.
Each of the authors has mastered not only the vast secondary
material on the subject matter, but also on the voluminous archival
sources available. Indeed, it is rare that a scholarly enterprise
of such vast scope makes such effective use of primary sources, and
all of the authors are to be commended for their efforts. In short,
like the other volumes in the series, volume 8 makes an invaluable
contribution to the historiography of WW II in
Europe....Essential.
*CHOICE*
Each of the authors has mastered not only the vast secondary
material on the subject matter, but also on the voluminous archival
sources available. Indeed, it is rare that a scholarly enterprise
of such vast scope makes such effective use of primary sources, and
all of the authors are to be commended for their efforts. In short,
like the other volumes in the series, volume 8 makes an invaluable
contribution to the historiography of WW II in
Europe....Essential.
*CHOICE*
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