By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall. But while commanders close to the troops on Germany's various fronts were beginning to read it, those at the top were resolutely looking the other way.

This seventh volume in the magisterial 10-volume series from the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt Research Institute for Military History] shows both Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive, from 1943 into early 1945. It looks in depth at the strategic air war over the Reich and the mounting toll taken in the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg, and...

Dieses Buch basiert wie alle OGG-Bande auf der bewahrten Dreiteilung - Darstellung, Grundprobleme und Tendenzen der Forschung, Quellen und Literatur. Im Darstellungsteil behandelt Gerhard Krebs die ausgehende Shogunatszeit mit der erzwungenen Landesoffnung, die Modernisierung der Meiji-Ara, den Aufstieg Japans zur Gromacht und den Ubergang zur Demokratie nach dem verlorenen Zweiten Weltkrieg. Zasuren und Bruche spielen dabei eine groe Rolle, mindestens ebenso wichtig in der Geschichte des modernen Japans ist jedoch die Kontinuitat von einer Ara zur vorhergehenden. Im Mittelpunkt des...

By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall. But while commanders close to the troops on Germany's various fronts were beginning to read it, those at the top were resolutely looking the other way.

This seventh volume in the magisterial 10-volume series from the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt Research Institute for Military History] shows both Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive, from 1943 into early 1945. It looks in depth at the strategic air war over the Reich and the mounting toll taken in the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg, and...