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The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II Hardcover - 2003

by John Mosier


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A challenging reassessment of the military history of World War II

The great myth of the First World War was that defense was all-powerful. In the inter war years, a new myth appeared -- that the new technology of the airplane and the tank would result in rapid and massive breakthroughs on the battlefield, with the enemy being destroyed in weeks.

John Mosier shows how Hitler, Rommel, von Manstein, Montgomery, and Patton were all equally seduced by the breakthrough myth, or blitzkrieg, as the decisive way to victory. He shows how the Polish campaign in the autumn of 1939 and the fall of France in the spring of 1940 were not blitzkrieg victories. He also reinterprets Rommel's North African campaigns, D day, the Normandy campaign, and Hitler's last desperate breakthrough effort to Antwerp in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, among others. All these actions saw the clash of breakthrough theories with the realities of conventional military tactics. The Blitzkrieg Myth is a compelling and original rethinking of the strategy and tactics of World War II by the author of the highly praised The Myth of the Great War.

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  • Title The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II
  • Author John Mosier
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, New York
  • Date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060009762 / 0060009764
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.37 x 1.24 in (23.70 x 16.18 x 3.15 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, Tactics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004299008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.54
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