Defeat In The West
By: with an introd. by Sir Ian Jacob.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 321. Bibliographical references in "Notes" (p. 322-330)
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PAGE; title: Introduction v; title: List of Illustrations X; title: Author's Preface XII; title: BOOK ONE; title: THE ROAD TO DEFEAT; title: PART I; title: THE CAUSES; title: CHAPTER; title: I. Men Make Wars 1; title: II. Hitler 3; title: III. Discipline 8; title: IV. Ignorance 13; title: PART II; title: THE BEGINNINGS; title: V. The Wehrmacht is Reborn 21; title: VI. Hitler versus the German General Staff 25; title: VII. The Phoney War 33; title: VIII. Victory — and Defeat 39; title: PART III; title: THE MISTAKES; title: IX. The Early Mistakes — Gibraltar and Crete 54; title: X. The Greatest Mistake — Russia 60; title: XI. The Decisive Mistake — United States 74; title: XII. The Final Mistake — El Alamein 78; title: BOOK TWO; title: DEFEAT IN THE WEST; title: PART IV; title: THE INVASION; title: XIII. The Atlantic Wall and the Men Behind It 88; title: XIV. Watching and Waiting 95; title: XV. The First Days 100; title: XVI. The Battle of the Bridgehead 109; title: XVII. The German Soldier Still Hopes 116; title: PART V; title: THE DECLINE; title: XVIII. July Twentieth 122; title: XIX. Defeat in Normandy 136; title: XX. Mortain 145; title: XXI. The Hell of Falaise 148; title: XXII. Paris and the Seine 162; title: XXIII. The Retreat 177; title: XXIV. The Fortresses 187; title: XXV. Manning the Siegfried Line 202; title: PART VI; title: THE COUNTERBLOW; title: XXVI. Offensive in the Ardennes 222; title: XXVII. The Parachutists and the Saboteurs 235; title: XXVIII. Elation and Despair 248; title: XXIX. The Thunder of Collapse 253; title: PART VII; title: THE END; title: XXX. Defeat West of the Rhine 262; title: XXXI. Defeat East of the Rhine 277; title: XXXII. Resistance that Never Came 286; title: XXXIII. Defeat 294; title: XXXIV. The Vanquished 309; title: APPENDIX A; title: Senior German Officers interviewed by the Author 320; title: APPENDIX B; title: Bibliography 321; title: Notes 322; title: Index 330; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Plate I. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg with Colonel General Hans von Seeckt; title: At a ceremony in Berlin in March 1935 are Field Marshal von Mackensen, Hitler and Field Marshal von Blomberg, Colonel General von Fritsch, Goring and Admiral Raeder Inspecting a guard during manoeuvres in August 1938 are Colonel General Blaskowitz, Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch and Hitler; title: Plate II. Colonel General Franz Haider, Chief-of-Staff of the German Army, September 1938 to September 1942; title: Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Commander Army Group 'B' in France (1940)and Army Group South in Russia (1941-42) Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, February 1934 to February 1938 Hitler and his field marshals, August 1940: Field Marshal Keitel, Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Field Marshal von Bock, Reichsmarshal Goring, Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal von Leeb, Field Marshal List, Field Marshal von Kluge, Field Marshal von Witzleben and Field Marshal von Reichenau; title: A STUDY IN VICTORY AND DEFEAT; title: Plate III. Victorious Generals: Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Commander Army Group 'A' in France (1940), Army Group South in Russia (1941), Commander-in-Chief West (1942-45); Field Marshal von Leeb, Commander Army Group 'C' in France (1940), Army Group North in Russia (1941); Field Marshal List, Commander Army Group 'A' in the Caucasus (1942); title: Defeated Generals: Field Marshals von Rundstedt, von Leeb and List as prisoners-of-war; title: Plate IV, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Commander 'Afrika Korps' (1941-43), Army Group 'B' in France (1944); title: Colonel General Kurt Student, Commander Army Group 'H' (1944-45), Commander-in-Chief German Airborne Troops (1943-45); title: Adolf Hitler congratulating Admiral Raeder, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Keitel and S.S. Reichsfiihrer Himmler at Berlin in April 1941; title: Plate V. S.S. Brigadefiihrer (Major General) Kurt Meyer, Commander 12 S.S. Panzer Division 'Hitler Jugend'; title: General Gunther Blumentritt, Chief-of-Staff to the Commander-in-Chief West (1942-44), Commander Twenty-fifth Army and First Parachute Army (1945); title: Field Marshal Rommel in May 1944 inspecting 21 Panzer Division led by Lieutenant General Edgar Feuchtinger; title: Plate VI. S.S. Oberstgruppenfiihrer (Colonel General)Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich, Commander Fifth Panzer Army and SiXth S.S. Panzer Army; title: Colonel General Heinz Guderian, Commander-in-Chief East (1944), Chief-of-Staff of the German Army, July 1944 to May 1945 Field Marshal Walter Model, Commander Army Group North and Army Group Center in Russia (1944), Army Group 'B' in France (1944-45); title: Colonel General Ludwig Beck, Chief-of-Staff of the German Army (1936-38), and military leader of the 20 July assassination plot against Hitler; title: Plate VII. Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, Army Group Center in Russia (1943), Commander-in-Chief West (July-August 1944) Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Commander-in-Chief South (1942-43), Commander-in-Chief South-west (1944-45), Commander-in-Chief West (March-May 1945); title: Colonel General Alfred Jodi signing the surrender terms on behalf of the German Supreme Command at Rheims on 7 May 1945. At the eXtreme right is Admiral Hans von Friedeburg; title: Plate VIII. Wehrmacht (rear view), Nuremberg, September 1936 Wehrmacht (front view). The Elbe, May 1945; title: (These plates, which are all in one Section, will be found following page 144.); title: MAPS; title: The Invasion That Never Came 45; title: (September 1940); title: The Normandy Bridgehead 117; title: (29 June 1944); title: The Falaise Pocket 159; title: (19 August 1944); title: The Retreat from France 181; title: (17 September 1944); title: The Ardennes Offensive 227; title: (24 December 1944); title: The Allied Advance to the Rhine 273; title: (February-March 1945); title: The Final Collapse 285; title: (April-May 1945)