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Blitzkrieg no longer : the German Wehrmacht in battle, 1943 / Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, MD. : Stackpole Books, 2019.Description: iv, 316 pages : illustrations, photographs, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0811737179
  • 9780811737173
Subject(s):
Contents:
Nazi Germany and the Wehrmacht, 1933-1942 -- Manstein restores the southern flank -- The defeat of the German navy -- Tunisgrad -- The bombing intensifies -- The state of the Wehrmacht, spring 1943 -- Hitler's summer offensive -- The retreat begins in the East -- Decay and disarray in the Mediterranean -- The Allied invasion of southern Europe -- The fall of fascism and the loss of Sicily -- Cracking the floodgates: the Russian front from 1943 to early 1944 -- The Italian defection and the Battle of Salerno -- Salerno to the Gustave Line.
Summary: "After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide. In the Mediterranean, Rommel's early successes in Africa were erased by the surrender of Tunisia, and German forces barely escaped Sicily before the Allies seized the island. On the Eastern Front, Soviet T-34s beat German armour in the massive tank battle at Kursk. At sea, the Allies countered the U-boat threat, and in the air, Allied forces dominated the Luftwaffe and took the war to the German home front."--Publisher's description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

By 1943, the tide of World War II had started to turn against Germany. Defeated at Stalingrad, the Third Reich's armies regrouped only to be defeated at Kursk. Elsewhere, the Germans surrendered in North Africa, met Allied invasions in Sicily and Italy, and saw their Luftwaffe and navy increasingly dominated by the Allies. The war would drag on for two more brutal years, but the end was now in sight. No longer could the Germans mount their feared blitzkrieg. Mitcham chronicles the turning-point year of 1943 with insight and drama.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nazi Germany and the Wehrmacht, 1933-1942 -- Manstein restores the southern flank -- The defeat of the German navy -- Tunisgrad -- The bombing intensifies -- The state of the Wehrmacht, spring 1943 -- Hitler's summer offensive -- The retreat begins in the East -- Decay and disarray in the Mediterranean -- The Allied invasion of southern Europe -- The fall of fascism and the loss of Sicily -- Cracking the floodgates: the Russian front from 1943 to early 1944 -- The Italian defection and the Battle of Salerno -- Salerno to the Gustave Line.

"After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide. In the Mediterranean, Rommel's early successes in Africa were erased by the surrender of Tunisia, and German forces barely escaped Sicily before the Allies seized the island. On the Eastern Front, Soviet T-34s beat German armour in the massive tank battle at Kursk. At sea, the Allies countered the U-boat threat, and in the air, Allied forces dominated the Luftwaffe and took the war to the German home front."--Publisher's description.

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