ISBN10: 0700617914, ISBN13: 9780700617913, [publisher: University Press of Kansas 2007-10-30, Lawrence, Kan. :|London] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0700617914, ISBN13: 9780700617913, [publisher: University Press of Kansas, Kansas] Softcover Paperback. For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army's emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the ""war of movement""attempts to smash the enemy in ""short and lively"" campaignsas they were in Hitler's deeply flawed management of the war.From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler's expansionist ambitions. He examines every major campaign and battle in the Russian and North African theaters throughout the year to assess how a military geared to quick and decisive victories coped when the tide turned against it.Citino also reconstructs the German generals' view of the war and illuminates the multiple contingencies that might have produced more favorable results. In ...