Table of Contents:
  • Birth of the Blitzkrieg
  • Blitzkrieg in the West
  • The Battle of Britain
  • Hitler triumphant: the Balkan Campaign and Operation Barbarossa
  • Cannae on a vast scale: the Russo-German war to Stalingrad
  • New masters of Blitzkrieg: the Russo-German war from Kursk to Berlin
  • The Western allies sieze the initiative: North Africa
  • The Grand Alliance
  • The Battle of the Atlantic
  • Allied victory in the Mediterranean: Sicily and Italy
  • No more Gallipolis: planning and preparing the cross-channel attack
  • Taking the dare: the D-Day assault
  • A business of build-up
  • Planning and implementing the breakout: Operation COBRA
  • The tyranny of logistics
  • A rather ambitious counterattack
  • Mission fulfilled.