Table of Contents

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 Schoenherr: 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 Schoenherr: The Battles for Galicia and the Beskid Mountains 6: Klaus Schoenherr: The Withdrawal Battles in Romania and Transylvania in the Summer and Autumn of 1944 7: Krisztian Ungvary: 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 Schoenherr: 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

About the Author

Karl-Heinz Frieser (b. 1949), was a Colonel in the Bundeswehr. He studied political science and mediaeval and modern history at Wurzburg. 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: Militarhistorischer Fuhrer durch eine europaische Schicksalslandschaft (2nd ed., 2006). His main area of research is in the operational history of the Second World War.

Reviews

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 *