Blitzkrieg in the West and Total War in the East
-
Soviet Invasion of Finland
-
"mission creep"
-
Sweden
-
Norway & Denmark, April 9, 1940
-
Vidkun Quisling
-
Winston Churchill
- May
10, 1940
- bombing
of Rotterdam
- Eben
Emael Fortress
- hollow
charge
- glider
- Battle
of Gembloux
- Paul
Reynaud
- British
Expeditionary Force (BEF)
- The
myth of the Belgian surrender
- Dunkirk
- Vichy
France
- Marshall
Petain
- Prime
Minister Pierre Laval
- Giulio
Douhet - Il
dominio dell’aria
- Tactical
Bomber
- Strategic
Bomber
- Flying
Fortress B-17
- Battle
of Britain
- Schweinfurt
Ball Bearing Works Bombing
- Operation
Barbarossa June 22, 1941
- General
Mud
- General
Winter
- Mussolini
- Afrika
Korps
- Yugoslavia
- Greece April 1941
- Ustashi
- Croatia
- Ante
Pavalic
- Pearl
Harbor
- German
Sixth Army
- Stalingrad
Nov 1942-January 1943
- Field
Marshal Friedrich Paulus
- totalkrieg
- Sicily
- Italy
- Salo
- Operation
Citadel (Battle of Kursk) July 1943
- Mark
V Panther
- June
6, 1944
- Battle
of the Bulge December 1944
- November
8, 1939 Attempt - July
20, 1944 Plot
RECOMMENDED READINGS and RESOURCES
John Mosier, The Blitzkrieg Myth, New York: Perennial, 2003.
Peter Hoffmann, Hitler's Personal Security: Protecting the Fuhrer, 1921-1945, New York: Da Capo Press, 2000. (2nd Edition)
Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler's Death: The History of the German Resistance
Paul Carrell, Hitler Moves East: 1941-1943 and Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War 1943-1944
Alexander
Werth, Russia At War 1941-1945
Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion
of Russia
Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
Vasili Ivanovich Chikov, The Battle for Stalingrad
Peter G. Tsouras, Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal On The Eastern Front
Ronald E. Powaski, Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West
Samuel W. Mitcham, Hitler's Field Marchals and Their Battles
Omer
Bartov, Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich
William Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
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