Defeating Hitler
Subtitle: Whitehall's secret report on why Hitler lost the war
By: Paul Winter
Contributors: Winter, Paul (Paul Russell James)
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781441196354; 9781441178466; 9781441114310
Subjects: Sources; Secret service; World War, 1939-1945; Military policy; Military intelligence
Work titles: Some weaknesses in German strategy and organisation, 1933-1945
Description: "Published for the very first time, the top secret report Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933 - 1945 was prepared by Whitehall's highest intelligence body, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and presented to Britain's Chiefs of Staff in 1946 to 'set down certain aspects of the War whilst there are still sources available who were closely connected with the events described'. Paul Winter sets this unique and important document in its historical setting, providing biographies of key figures referenced in the report and a timeline of the crucial events of the Second World War."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Comprises text and appendices of report entitled: Some weaknesses in German strategy and organisation, 1933-1945 : report by the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, presented Oct. 20, 1946.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-408).
Table of contents: title: The Report: Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933-1945.; title: Some weaknesses in German strategy and organisation, 1933-1945: Report / by the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. Section 1: Hitler's grand design ; Events which interfered with the execution of the design ; Decline and final defeat.; title: German weaknesses. Hitler ; Machinery of joint command ; The weaknesses of German intelligence ; Organisation of German war production.; title: Appendix. The forging of the German war machine ; The German political scene ; Nazi machinery of government ; The machinery of joint command ; The German Secret Intelligence Service (GIS) ; German War production ; The organisation of German military supply ; Poland 1939 ; Norway ; The West (Up to December 1942) ; The Balkans (Up to the winter of 1941) ; The East (Up to the fall of Stalingrad) ; The Balkans (From the Winter of 1941-42 to 1945) ; The West (1943-45) ; The East (1943-45) ; The Mediterranean ; German Naval Strategy ; The U-boat War ; German Air strategy.