Unparalleled in scope and depth, Germany and the Second World War is a magisterial ten-volume history series that will prove indispensable to historians of the twentieth century. This volume examines the transformation of a European war into a global conflict during the period from 1941-1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the initiative to the Allies, and it spans both the climax and turning points of the war. Its detailed analysis is supplemented by numerous maps, diagrams, and tables.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) und Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891) sind die klassischen Autoren der deutschen kriegstheoretischen und kriegsgeschichtlichen Literatur. Die Vielfalt der von ihnen behandelten Gegenstände, die Unmittelbarkeit ihrer Beobachtung, die Originalität ihres Denkens, nicht zuletzt aber auch die Kraft ihrer Sprache erregten Aufsehen weit über den militärischen Bereich hinaus. Die vorliegende Ausgabe faßt die wichtigsten Schriften beider Autoren in einem Band zusammen. Sie bietet die wesentlichen Teile von Clausewitz' theoretischem Hauptwerk Vom Kriege, die...

Volume VI of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series deals with the extension of a European war into a global one in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the initiative to the Allies, and it represents, both in content and in composition, the climax and turning points of the war.
An account is given of the development of the war at sea in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean until the spring of 1943, of the changeable course of events in the North African theatre of war until the establishment of...