How To Lose WWII. Bad Mistakes Of The Good War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 286 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: There had never before been a war on the scale of World War II. The sheer size of the conflict and the immense scope of a single battlefield, multiplied the effects of both brilliant and bad decisions. When millions of men are attacking in a Russian offensive or thousands of aircraft are dueling in the skies over Europe, every key decision had dramatic, and often disastrous, results.The author of How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War introduces the catastrophic missteps, including:Polands lack of preparation for the Nazi invasionGermanys failure to take Britain out of the war at DunkirkRussia playing Goliath to Finlands DavidAllied forces getting trapped for four months on the beaches of AnzioGermany wasting its costly development of jet power.

ISBN: 9780061807312