THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945 by MAJOR-GENERAL JFC FULLER - 1962

Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller CB CBE DSO (1878-1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. He wrote 45 books and explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector. Fuller emphasized the potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to psychologically stun an enemy. He was also highly controversial in British politics because of his support for the fascist movement.

This book, The Second World War 1939-1945, was first published in 1948. It was revised and re-issued in 1954. This copy is from the 1962 American reprint of that revised issue.

Fuller's biographer, Bryan Holden Reid, has described The Second World War as "an analysis of the breakdown, as Fuller saw it, of the vital relationship between grand strategy and grand tactics--the end and the means...Too often books on the Second world War detail the movements of formations about the battlefield and give space to strategical commentary without assessing the manner in which the war was actually fought. On the tactical level, The Second World War can still be read with profit." Fuller himself characterized the book, however, as "in part a least a psychological study of the folly of man." Expertly combining detailed military history and analysis with Clausewitzian insights based on his own theories of warfare, Fuller produced a modern military masterpiece in The Second World War.

431 pages, including maps and photos. No dust jacket. There are a couple of white marks on the cover, which will likely come off. Inside, the pages have darkened a little but it's in very good condition.

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