Format:
Online-Ressource (313 p)
ISBN:
9781591143451
Content:
The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions. To imply that Hitler had a rational plan to win the war flies in the face of widely accepted interpretations, but historian Howard D. Grier persuasively argues here that Hitler did possess a strategy to regain the initiative in 1944-45 and that the Baltic theater played the key role in his plan.In examining that strategy, Grier answers lingering questions abo
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Table of Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; 1. The Retreat: From Leningrad to Narva; 2. The German Collapse in the Summer of 1944; 3. The Retreat to Courland; 4. The Struggle for the Baltic Isles; 5. Army Group Courland, October 1944-May 1945; 6. Memel, Prussia, and Pomerania; 7. Courland, East Prussia, and West Prussia; 8. The Swedish Question; 9. The U-boat War, the Baltic Sea, and Norway; 10. Hitler and Donitz; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781612514130
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781591143451
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea : The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944-1945
Language:
English
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